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I really agree with the "uncanny valley" judgement. I would absolutely love to ditch my Windows 10 laptop for a smooth, efficient, and secure ChromeOS device. H

by Zee2 9y ago

I really agree with the "uncanny valley" judgement. I would absolutely love to ditch my Windows 10 laptop for a smooth, efficient, and secure ChromeOS device. However, it simply doesn't have the software support, unfortunately. What I see a lot of "power users" doing is simply using their Chromebook to remote into their desktop for their application work. However, what then is the point of putting such powerful hardware in the Chromebook? Either you make a "thin" portable client that is used to remote into your "real" PC, or you make a powerful portable device that is self sufficient. An overwhelmingly powerful device that can only be used to remote into another system to do the "real" work is simply a waste.

__MatrixMan__ 9y ago
Most of the time if I'm using a chromebook for anything other than web browsing, it's in a chroot environment--so I have all of the same functionality as my desktop at home. Then again, my workflows are pretty all light weight, so I probably wouldn't notice the extra horsepower anyway.
cauthon 9y ago
> What I see a lot of "power users" doing is simply using their Chromebook to remote into their desktop for their application work. Naive question - how would one set up a desktop at home to make it securely remotely accessible?
- milesokeefe 9y ago
  This is one option: https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/ https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
  - sushisource 9y ago
    Wow, that's really neat. Surprised I've never heard of it.
    - e12e 9y ago
      Recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727
- tadfisher 9y ago
  I just tunnel VNC over SSH. SSH is locked to a GPG key stored on a Yubikey, and I use gpg-agent as my SSH agent. VNC only listens to localhost.
- JohnTHaller 9y ago
  Most folks I know use Windows Pro and Remote Desktop. VNC and the like are options as well. Then there are the closed source paid commercial options.
  - ihsw2 9y ago
    Can confirm, am using Remote Desktop with Windows 10 Pro. Very happy so far.

by Zee2 9y ago

__MatrixMan__ 9y ago

Most of the time if I'm using a chromebook for anything other than web browsing, it's in a chroot environment--so I have all of the same functionality as my desktop at home. Then again, my workflows are pretty all light weight, so I probably wouldn't notice the extra horsepower anyway.

cauthon 9y ago

> What I see a lot of "power users" doing is simply using their Chromebook to remote into their desktop for their application work. Naive question - how would one set up a desktop at home to make it securely remotely accessible?

milesokeefe 9y ago
This is one option: https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/ https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
- sushisource 9y ago
  Wow, that's really neat. Surprised I've never heard of it.
  - e12e 9y ago
    Recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727
tadfisher 9y ago
I just tunnel VNC over SSH. SSH is locked to a GPG key stored on a Yubikey, and I use gpg-agent as my SSH agent. VNC only listens to localhost.
JohnTHaller 9y ago
Most folks I know use Windows Pro and Remote Desktop. VNC and the like are options as well. Then there are the closed source paid commercial options.
- ihsw2 9y ago
  Can confirm, am using Remote Desktop with Windows 10 Pro. Very happy so far.