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Yeah, I use a Chromebook as my main browsing machine and I've been so disappointed with it's capabilities. For some reason, I thought Google would make some eff
by cryptrash 10y ago
Yeah, I use a Chromebook as my main browsing machine and I've been so disappointed with it's capabilities. For some reason, I thought Google would make some efforts to make the ChromeOS a tool for developers on-the-go, but they've just seemed to shit on the entire lineup except for the Pixel.
Probably the last Google-backed device I'll buy.
- leppr 10y agoInstall a Linux distro on it?
- cryptrash 10y agoThat's what I use it for now. Thought I mentioned that, whoops. Yeah, I just run ubuntu on it.
- Touche 10y agoI don't know why you ever thought it was for developers. Clearly not having coreutils makes it a non-starter ad a development machine. ChromeOS was always about being a thin-client. A better kiosk OS, if you will. With that being said, I use Chrome OS for development. I have a DigitalOcean server that I SSH into using the excellent Secure Shell app, do all of my development there using tmux/vim and test in a browser tab. If you already like this workflow (some don't, I understand), then Chrome OS works very well for web development.
- colemickens 10y ago? The Pixel doesn't do anything that other Chromebooks can't. (But the screen is amazing). Though, with a bit of work it makes a great Linux laptop.