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(I'm crostini developer) Chrome OS has some natural advantages as an OS e.g. it's always updated and secure, device drivers just work. Chrome OS is also the onl

(I'm crostini developer) Chrome OS has some natural advantages as an OS e.g. it's always updated and secure, device drivers just work. Chrome OS is also the only desktop OS with Android support maintained by Google. Because Crostini uses Linux containers, more Linux programs can be used in development than MacOS, and any linux distribution that runs under LXD can be used. Chromebooks can also be found in certain places more commonly than macbooks, e.g. at schools or as part of a company's fleet of hardware.

bhhaskin 8y ago
That's all well and good, but doesn't answer the question. Why would I use Chrome OS rather than another Linux distro for web development? My Ubuntu instillation is also always updated and secure. Device drivers also just work. The android support sounds great for android development, not web development.
- ChristianBundy 8y ago
  > Why would I use Chrome OS rather than another Linux distro for web development? You shouldn't. It's in Google's best interest to get people to use their products. It's in your best interest to avoid Google whenever you can.
  - azangru 8y ago
    :-) I love this answer
  - sridca 8y ago
    I see that ditching Google has become a popular past-time here in HN, however avoiding Google is surely not even close to my best interest.
  - Latteland 8y ago
    So you think there is some special Google spying of what you type in bash in chromeos? Ain't happening
jancsika 8y ago
> device drivers just work Hm, I've got an ASUS C201 where I use crouton to run Debian Stretch. * audio craps out after three or four switches between Stretch and ChromeOS. It craps out in ChromeOS such that it locks up videos and they won't play. I have to restart to get it to work again. * the animated spinning wheel cursor in XFCE4 somehow locks down the entire input. Luckily it usually displays only in a file dialog so I can just mash <ESC> for awhile and break out of the loop. * I can't use the hotkey to switch between ChromeOS and Debian because it locks down on a blank screen and I have to hard reboot. * I can't leave XFCE4 on the screen because when it tries to wake back up from the blank screen it locks down and I have to hard reboot. * hot keys for audiolevel up/down sometimes don't work. Usually it makes me anxious that audio is about to crap out on ChromeOS. Then in the next few minutes... audio craps out in ChromeOS. Now, with crostini can you get GPU-acceleration with the Linux distro inside the container? Because with crouton it doesn't seem possible. (Rankly speculating that the XFCE4 spinning wheel cursor lock-up has something to do with lack of GPU-acceleration, but could be wrong.)
sridca 8y ago
If I want to run NixOS using crostini on my (upcoming) Pixel Slate, would it be run at an inferior performance compared to running NixOS natively on the device? Because it is all virtualized?

bhhaskin 8y ago

That's all well and good, but doesn't answer the question. Why would I use Chrome OS rather than another Linux distro for web development? My Ubuntu instillation is also always updated and secure. Device drivers also just work. The android support sounds great for android development, not web development.

ChristianBundy 8y ago
> Why would I use Chrome OS rather than another Linux distro for web development? You shouldn't. It's in Google's best interest to get people to use their products. It's in your best interest to avoid Google whenever you can.
- azangru 8y ago
  :-) I love this answer
- sridca 8y ago
  I see that ditching Google has become a popular past-time here in HN, however avoiding Google is surely not even close to my best interest.
- Latteland 8y ago
  So you think there is some special Google spying of what you type in bash in chromeos? Ain't happening

jancsika 8y ago

> device drivers just work Hm, I've got an ASUS C201 where I use crouton to run Debian Stretch. * audio craps out after three or four switches between Stretch and ChromeOS. It craps out in ChromeOS such that it locks up videos and they won't play. I have to restart to get it to work again. * the animated spinning wheel cursor in XFCE4 somehow locks down the entire input. Luckily it usually displays only in a file dialog so I can just mash <ESC> for awhile and break out of the loop. * I can't use the hotkey to switch between ChromeOS and Debian because it locks down on a blank screen and I have to hard reboot. * I can't leave XFCE4 on the screen because when it tries to wake back up from the blank screen it locks down and I have to hard reboot. * hot keys for audiolevel up/down sometimes don't work. Usually it makes me anxious that audio is about to crap out on ChromeOS. Then in the next few minutes... audio craps out in ChromeOS. Now, with crostini can you get GPU-acceleration with the Linux distro inside the container? Because with crouton it doesn't seem possible. (Rankly speculating that the XFCE4 spinning wheel cursor lock-up has something to do with lack of GPU-acceleration, but could be wrong.)

sridca 8y ago

If I want to run NixOS using crostini on my (upcoming) Pixel Slate, would it be run at an inferior performance compared to running NixOS natively on the device? Because it is all virtualized?