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Battery, browsers are a huge power hog and ChromeOS is basically just Chrome as an OS ui, so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect bat

Battery, browsers are a huge power hog and ChromeOS is basically just Chrome as an OS ui, so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect battery as much as it would on a Mac, for example. I use a Pixelbook now as my primary dev machine and compile a decently heavy Rust codebase in the linux env all day long and the battery doesn't die. If I move compilation to a cloud-based IDE, it'll last even longer.

bduerst 7y ago
Do you use crouton or have you switched to the linux containers?
- carlosdp 7y ago
  I'm using Crostini, so yea I'm using the container
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jklinger410 7y ago
>as much as it would on a Mac We're comparing Linux to Chrome OS, not Mac. I wiped my CB and loaded Gallium OS and have yet to see any significant battery depletion. At most I'm sacrificing some battery for a whole host of other tools, so it's a pretty decent trade.
- carlosdp 7y ago
  I don't think this is meant to attract people who are ok with managing a Linux distro as their desktop today, I think it's for people like me that need a Unix environment for development, but want something that "just works" for rest-of-life stuff. Today, in the tech world at least, that need is largely filled by Macs.
  - ngcc_hk 7y ago
    Totally agreed. Just today compared the cost to get a mac air 2018 16 gb 512g with asus s. Just double the costs. Not sure chromebook can help.
    - carlosdp 7y ago
      My Pixelbook was $600 on sale, it's why I tried it out before going for a new Mac, and I just stuck with it
curt15 7y ago
>so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect battery as much as it would on a Mac, for example. What sort of optimizations can they do for ChromeOS that they can't do for Chrome on Macs?
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
  IIRC, directly hooking into the kernel / modifying the kernel directly, instead of working around it. It's also sort of a "home base" in the Chrome development world.
hogu 7y ago
You haven't had any problems with external monitors? I tried to use a Samsung Chromebook plus as adev machine and terminal fonts on external monitors looked terrible.
- carlosdp 7y ago
  The only issue I've had with external monitors are sometimes it has random flickers, but reconnecting it fixes it. Pixelbook hardware is pretty decent. That said, finding a good USB-C to HDMI adapter is tricky (can't use the apple ones cause they're actually thunderbolt). I have a USKY one, but it has an annoying tiny fan that makes a high-pitched sound when power is plugged in but the laptop is unplugged, and it heats up quite a bit.

bduerst 7y ago

Do you use crouton or have you switched to the linux containers?

carlosdp 7y ago
I'm using Crostini, so yea I'm using the container

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jklinger410 7y ago

>as much as it would on a Mac We're comparing Linux to Chrome OS, not Mac. I wiped my CB and loaded Gallium OS and have yet to see any significant battery depletion. At most I'm sacrificing some battery for a whole host of other tools, so it's a pretty decent trade.

carlosdp 7y ago
I don't think this is meant to attract people who are ok with managing a Linux distro as their desktop today, I think it's for people like me that need a Unix environment for development, but want something that "just works" for rest-of-life stuff. Today, in the tech world at least, that need is largely filled by Macs.
- ngcc_hk 7y ago
  Totally agreed. Just today compared the cost to get a mac air 2018 16 gb 512g with asus s. Just double the costs. Not sure chromebook can help.
  - carlosdp 7y ago
    My Pixelbook was $600 on sale, it's why I tried it out before going for a new Mac, and I just stuck with it

curt15 7y ago

>so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect battery as much as it would on a Mac, for example. What sort of optimizations can they do for ChromeOS that they can't do for Chrome on Macs?

HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
IIRC, directly hooking into the kernel / modifying the kernel directly, instead of working around it. It's also sort of a "home base" in the Chrome development world.

hogu 7y ago

You haven't had any problems with external monitors? I tried to use a Samsung Chromebook plus as adev machine and terminal fonts on external monitors looked terrible.

carlosdp 7y ago
The only issue I've had with external monitors are sometimes it has random flickers, but reconnecting it fixes it. Pixelbook hardware is pretty decent. That said, finding a good USB-C to HDMI adapter is tricky (can't use the apple ones cause they're actually thunderbolt). I have a USKY one, but it has an annoying tiny fan that makes a high-pitched sound when power is plugged in but the laptop is unplugged, and it heats up quite a bit.