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In my experience, Chrome OS is absolutely usable as a development machine for linux environments with crouton[1]. Crouton basically installs Ubuntu within Chrom
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
In my experience, Chrome OS is absolutely usable as a development machine for linux environments with crouton[1]. Crouton basically installs Ubuntu within Chrome OS, and can include GUIs and tons of software packages. I've done nearly the entirety of my WGU IT degree using Chrome OS, and if I get a software development degree, I'll use it there too. If Windows interoperability or virtualization is required, then you might look elsewhere, because virtualization is tough to set up in the chroot environment and would run sluggishly anyway if you use an ARM-based laptop like I do.
[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
- jacksmith21006 9y agoDisagree. Use CB for development and with Crouton and so mostly use docker containers. Also set my son's up at University in this manner. CB are Linux just without GNU or userland. So the driver's already been optimized for the hardware. Plus secure and gets updated. The only negative is having to leave in developer. Now if Google would finish the work they are doing on the KVM to fix this it will be ideal. What is nice you are dev on the same as runs the cloud.