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there are some limitations for software development with crouton though... basic scripting works fine, but quite a few things fail. The most recent one i stumb

by y4mi 9y ago

there are some limitations for software development with crouton though... basic scripting works fine, but quite a few things fail. The most recent one i stumbled on was kivy [1]. It couldn't start X-Sessions to open any windows. [1]https://kivy.org/#home https://kivy.org/#home

jrs95 9y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of these issues. I'm pretty much strictly doing web & server development though
isr 9y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on that? I find that a tad surprising ... Just hazarding a guess, but are you using the xiwi X11 replacement? That's just a dummy x server, with everything forwarded to a chrome app. Its a hack to get around the chromeos switch from x to a custom wayland'ish display server. Pretty slow. But with crouton, you can also run a full xorg on vt-2. And I would be very surprised if anything failed to run there (from a graphical perspective). Even steam with full hardware acceleration works.
- y4mi 9y ago
  I started with xiwi, but as crouton environments are cheap, I also created a full xorg install. It's pretty easy to choose after all. I've since installed galliumOs though, so I can't test anymore.