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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
by alpaca9 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agoYeah 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 2mo agoChromeOS is a Linux, and you can run anything Linux in them, including all the command line apps you like.
- vector_spaces 2mo agoBeyond 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