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I used one in the wild, but I was working for Google at the time.

by eru 3mo ago

alpaca9 3mo ago
It would be hell being forced to use these things for your job. What departments were? Because I can't imagine a software developer using one.
- esseph 3mo ago
  Vscode can run in a browser, your code is often in git, and it normally is going through CI/CD (being compiled/packaged/deployed elsewhere). All you need for that is a dumb terminal.
  - olyjohn 3mo ago
    Boy I hope VSCode runs better in the browser than all of Microsoft's other terrible web apps.
    - esseph 3mo ago
      https://vscode.dev/ https://vscode.dev/
- eru 3mo ago
  I wasn't forced to use anything. This was in the mid-2010s when the first ARM Chromebook came out; I bought one out of curiosity. But I learned about it at work. Independent of that: some of the modern higher end Chromebooks can be quite nice, and you can (A) run general Linux on them, and (B) VS Code dev tunnel in the browser runs on them just as well as on any other laptop.
  - alpaca9 3mo ago
    yeah i forgot about their linux capabilities they got. In my mind they didn't seem a lot different than simple android tablets with a keyboard but indeed if the hardware isn't bad it could be valid option now I think about it.
    - eru 3mo ago
      > In my mind they didn't seem a lot different than simple android tablets with a keyboard [...] Well, that's also what a MacBook Air is. And a MacBook Neo is the same but with a phone's processor, instead of a tablet. But that first tiny ARM Chromebook I tried in mid 2010s actually sucked a lot. It was cheap, though. It was the time of the netbook craze.
      - alpaca9 3mo ago
        Yeah but these MacBooks run MacOS, which is a fully fledged desktop OS compared to ChromeOS which looks and feels a lot more like Android and lacks features in some areas.
        eru 3mo ago
        ChromeOS is a Linux, and you can run anything Linux in them, including all the command line apps you like.
    - vector_spaces 3mo ago
      Beyond what was provided natively in ChromeOS, you could often get something like GalliumOS working on them. My old Chromebook was fairly painful to use as a Chromebook, but GalliumOS made it pretty snappy and fun. Unfortunately that project seems unmaintained now

I used one in the wild, but I was working for Google at the time.

by eru 3mo ago

I used one in the wild, but I was working for Google at the time.

It would be hell being forced to use these things for your job. What departments were? Because I can't imagine a software developer using one.

esseph 3mo ago
Vscode can run in a browser, your code is often in git, and it normally is going through CI/CD (being compiled/packaged/deployed elsewhere). All you need for that is a dumb terminal.
- olyjohn 3mo ago
  Boy I hope VSCode runs better in the browser than all of Microsoft's other terrible web apps.
  - esseph 3mo ago
    https://vscode.dev/ https://vscode.dev/
eru 3mo ago
I wasn't forced to use anything. This was in the mid-2010s when the first ARM Chromebook came out; I bought one out of curiosity. But I learned about it at work. Independent of that: some of the modern higher end Chromebooks can be quite nice, and you can (A) run general Linux on them, and (B) VS Code dev tunnel in the browser runs on them just as well as on any other laptop.
- alpaca9 3mo ago
  yeah i forgot about their linux capabilities they got. In my mind they didn't seem a lot different than simple android tablets with a keyboard but indeed if the hardware isn't bad it could be valid option now I think about it.
  - eru 3mo ago
    > In my mind they didn't seem a lot different than simple android tablets with a keyboard [...] Well, that's also what a MacBook Air is. And a MacBook Neo is the same but with a phone's processor, instead of a tablet. But that first tiny ARM Chromebook I tried in mid 2010s actually sucked a lot. It was cheap, though. It was the time of the netbook craze.
    - alpaca9 3mo ago
      Yeah but these MacBooks run MacOS, which is a fully fledged desktop OS compared to ChromeOS which looks and feels a lot more like Android and lacks features in some areas.
      - eru 3mo ago
        ChromeOS is a Linux, and you can run anything Linux in them, including all the command line apps you like.
  - vector_spaces 3mo ago
    Beyond what was provided natively in ChromeOS, you could often get something like GalliumOS working on them. My old Chromebook was fairly painful to use as a Chromebook, but GalliumOS made it pretty snappy and fun. Unfortunately that project seems unmaintained now