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Got it - still I've had to use laptop - I would go with one of Chromebooks with Crouton or System76 laptops
by tkubacki 9y ago
Got it - still I've had to use laptop - I would go with one of Chromebooks with Crouton or System76 laptops
- zzalpha 9y agoA chromebook as a dev environment is something I've never heard of. My dev laptop has 16Gb of memory and a 512Gb SSD with a Core i7 onboard. It gets 8 hours of active dev work on a charge. No Chromebook comes close to those specs. More generally, Linux just fails on a laptop. See the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_laptop_reviews/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_lapt... And that's for a laptop designed to work with Linux. Again, I have deep familiarity with running Linux on a laptop, having done so for over 10 years. Debian running on my old Lenovo T410 worked okay. Most of the time. Well, for a while, anyway. Assuming I could live with 2-3 hours of battery life and apt-get update resulting in random hardware breakage.
- tkubacki 9y agoIn general I do agree that it's hard to have good laptop/linux developer experience. Chromebooks are usually not very strong machines however I've seen people working this way on Pixels. Heard lot of good about using better laptop with this https://www.neverware.com/ https://www.neverware.com/ - still it's unclear how reliable it's