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Have you actually used a Chromebook, like, spent more than 10 hours working on them? If not, you should try such a laptop out and then come back with your opini

by d3w4s9 3y ago

Have you actually used a Chromebook, like, spent more than 10 hours working on them? If not, you should try such a laptop out and then come back with your opinion. Even Chromebooks with Celeron processors are very usable and beat Windows laptops with the same specs by miles. Also want to point out high-end Chromebooks are expensive and likely don't sell very well due to its market. So here it is striking a balance. Which is why I won't be buying one of these. But other people will.

s3p 3y ago
Chrome OS is fundamentally limited in what it can do, so I understand why no one would want to pay for overpowered hardware. Will not be buying one either.
- rnk 3y ago
  Are you aware of the crostini subsystem? You can run linux apps, you have a shell, it's a vm separated from the rest of the system, but everything works like native apps. X window apps look normal. You can run anything, firefox, emacsx, dev tools. So now you can run android apps safely and directly, you have the ubiquitious chrome browser world running, with a bunch of chrome-os things that making it a great environment for a lot of things. And you can run linux where you are root, you can do basically anything. The one limitation was recursive vms, I wonder if they enabled that yet.
  - slim 3y ago
    first time I hear about recursive vm. I suppose it means running a vm inside a vm. now curious. why would one want to do that ?
    - rnk 3y ago
      Think of recursive as running dev tools that are running vms in them, say running mulitpass inside crostini - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/multipass-is-a-new-tool-for-launching-virtual-machines/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/multipass-is-a-new-tool....
      - nolist_policy 3y ago
        Nested VMs work in Crostin on my 2021 Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook.
        rnk 3y ago
        Can you give an example so I can try it on mine? I tried 3 years ago and it didn't work, but they are constantly enhancing it.
        nolist_policy 3y ago
        sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 4 -cdrom <some live linux iso>

by d3w4s9 3y ago

s3p 3y ago

Chrome OS is fundamentally limited in what it can do, so I understand why no one would want to pay for overpowered hardware. Will not be buying one either.

rnk 3y ago
Are you aware of the crostini subsystem? You can run linux apps, you have a shell, it's a vm separated from the rest of the system, but everything works like native apps. X window apps look normal. You can run anything, firefox, emacsx, dev tools. So now you can run android apps safely and directly, you have the ubiquitious chrome browser world running, with a bunch of chrome-os things that making it a great environment for a lot of things. And you can run linux where you are root, you can do basically anything. The one limitation was recursive vms, I wonder if they enabled that yet.
- slim 3y ago
  first time I hear about recursive vm. I suppose it means running a vm inside a vm. now curious. why would one want to do that ?
  - rnk 3y ago
    Think of recursive as running dev tools that are running vms in them, say running mulitpass inside crostini - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/multipass-is-a-new-tool-for-launching-virtual-machines/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/multipass-is-a-new-tool....
    - nolist_policy 3y ago
      Nested VMs work in Crostin on my 2021 Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook.
      - rnk 3y ago
        Can you give an example so I can try it on mine? I tried 3 years ago and it didn't work, but they are constantly enhancing it.
        nolist_policy 3y ago
        sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 4 -cdrom <some live linux iso>