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Coincidentally, recently project Crostini has reached Chrome OS stable. To those who don't know what it is - Crostini enables running Linux apps on Chrome OS (h
by neverminder 8y ago
Coincidentally, recently project Crostini has reached Chrome OS stable. To those who don't know what it is - Crostini enables running Linux apps on Chrome OS (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...). This makes Chrome OS a lot more appealing than it used to be, especially in combination with top end hardware like Pixelbook or Pixel Slate.
- ntsplnkv2 8y agoWhat's the point of even buying a Chromebook if you're just going to run Linux anyway? What is the advantage of buying a chromebook?
- linsomniac 8y agoFor me, at home, I'm doing very little. 90% of what I'm doing on my personal laptop these days is in a browser. ChromeOS is a dead simple, secure, browser appliance. Being able to install an Android SSH client and VPN takes that up to more like 99% and lets me do some work things as well. Being able to install a Linux app or two would probably take me more to like 100%. The only thing I really want to do that I'm not at the moment is have a more self-contained development environment like VSCode to dabble on some python rather than sshing over to a box and editing in vi.