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> what I like most is the ability to re-create my working environment on any hardware from USB key in 15 minutes Could you elaborate on this?
by sridca 8y ago
> what I like most is the ability to re-create my working environment on any hardware from USB key in 15 minutes
Could you elaborate on this?
- chewz 8y agoWell, I keep an install of ChromeOS on USB flash drive and I do regular backups [1] of crouton partition with Debian (cli only - 3.4 GB currently in my case). If I do not have my laptop with me I can install ChromeOS on any machine which takes maximum 15 minutes [depending on flash drive and USB speed]. Log in and entire ChromeOS graphical environment (bookmarks, Chrome extensions, ChromeOS apps, Web apps) is re-created automatically by ChromeOS from my Google account. Then re-creating crouton partition with Debian takes another 5 minutes. And I am good to go, because this is exact 1:1 copy of my Debian terminal environment with Vim, mutt, Mail folder, all project folders, npm packages, pip packages, git and everything. On new machine the screen could have different resolution, perhaps I have to login into few webpages in Chrome but it is generally my full environment. I did so in summer when I have not taken my Mac to vacation and also I often move to spare Lenovo laptop if I need to. [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Backups https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Backups