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I've been working on Chromebooks since the 2013 Chromebook Pixel, though the laptop itself is almost irrelevant, because I've just moved everything into the clo

I've been working on Chromebooks since the 2013 Chromebook Pixel, though the laptop itself is almost irrelevant, because I've just moved everything into the cloud and work from a couple of VMs with tmux/vim/mosh. Of course that's not on option if you require a complete IDE, but it seems that support for local GUI apps is coming with a native ChromeOS feature called Crostini. People runing the Development channel already play around with various apps like VS Code: https://chromeunboxed.com/news/chrome-os-container-crostini-vscode-virtual-machine https://chromeunboxed.com/news/chrome-os-container-crostini-... They're also working for native support for running VMs via KVM, though it looks as if that'll be primarily targeted to the enterprise world. It's an interesting time for Chromebooks.

sethrin 9y ago
If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small VM as a workspace, and the nice thing is that you can close the browser window and do something else, and the workspace will be exactly as you left it when you return, including any running terminal commands. I used C9 for a while before discovering Crouton[1] and subsequently GalliumOS[2], and it's still a pretty credible alternative to local development. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton [2] https://galliumos.org/ https://galliumos.org/ (I have no affiliation with any companies or projects mentioned.)
antoineMoPa 9y ago
I use my chromebook with crouton all the time. This semester for example, I did embedded development with mbed-cli (uses gcc for arm) and emacs. I also wrote LaTeX both on overleaf and on my chromebook (many gigabytes). I live with few hundred megabytes left and I listen to online radio instead of having gigabytes of songs. I delete stuff that I don't use and everything is fine.
tbyehl 9y ago
Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, those are exciting developments! I've been messing around with Crouton to run VS Code / .NET Core / PowerShell Core, but I'm not very comfortable with how that negates many of the security benefits of Chrome OS. Crostini will be a game-changer. I hope that stuff isn't limited to Intel -- I just bought an Acer R 13 and quite like it.
bigmanwalter 9y ago
Mosh looks amazing! I will set it up on my Chromebook as soon as I get home. Thanks for the tip :) have any other Chromebook tips?

sethrin 9y ago

If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small VM as a workspace, and the nice thing is that you can close the browser window and do something else, and the workspace will be exactly as you left it when you return, including any running terminal commands. I used C9 for a while before discovering Crouton[1] and subsequently GalliumOS[2], and it's still a pretty credible alternative to local development. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton [2] https://galliumos.org/ https://galliumos.org/ (I have no affiliation with any companies or projects mentioned.)

antoineMoPa 9y ago

I use my chromebook with crouton all the time. This semester for example, I did embedded development with mbed-cli (uses gcc for arm) and emacs. I also wrote LaTeX both on overleaf and on my chromebook (many gigabytes). I live with few hundred megabytes left and I listen to online radio instead of having gigabytes of songs. I delete stuff that I don't use and everything is fine.

tbyehl 9y ago

Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, those are exciting developments! I've been messing around with Crouton to run VS Code / .NET Core / PowerShell Core, but I'm not very comfortable with how that negates many of the security benefits of Chrome OS. Crostini will be a game-changer. I hope that stuff isn't limited to Intel -- I just bought an Acer R 13 and quite like it.

bigmanwalter 9y ago

Mosh looks amazing! I will set it up on my Chromebook as soon as I get home. Thanks for the tip :) have any other Chromebook tips?