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if you're bypassing the ChromeOS by installing a full Linux stack then aren't you undoing the "just works" part and you're back to the same issue of "maintainin
by hnriot 13y ago
if you're bypassing the ChromeOS by installing a full Linux stack then aren't you undoing the "just works" part and you're back to the same issue of "maintaining" an OS. And its a very expensive machine for what you're getting. The Air is less expensive for more hardware, and you get a real operating system.
- kunai 13y agoNot quite. Around 70% of the time, I'm in pure Chrome OS. The 30% I start a GNOME 3 session is to edit in Sublime and do some light image editing, and since GNOME 3 is pretty much full-GUI now without many config files, it's one setup and done.
- gohrt 13y agoCan you switch without a full reboot?
- hayksaakian 13y agoI would also like to know this.
- agravier 13y agoI used to use a dirty hack for that (https://github.com/agravier/chromarch https://github.com/agravier/chromarch), but it was developed for the first generation of Samsung chromebooks, I don't know if it would work on the latest ones.
- rjknight 13y agoYes: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
- Ecio78 13y agoCan I ask you the remaining 70% of the time what you do in pure Chrome OS? Web browsing, using Google docs etc..?
- kunai 13y agoBrowse HN and edit in Vim most of the time.
- pbsdp 13y agoThis is the ridiculous opposite of "just works".
- kunai 13y agoNo, actually it isn't. A chroot environment to run Sublime and a few other GNOME applications is not the opposite of "just works." You're going to have to do a hell of a lot more configuration in OS X than in Chrome OS if you want to run X applications.
- pbsdp 13y agoFirst of all, why would I want to run X applications? That said, let's say I do -- so I download and double-click the MacPorts installer, and then run 'port install' to install an X11 app from a binary package. Not that I'd want to.
- tluyben2 13y agoBecause of using the Samsung Chromebook for a while with ChromeOS, I started getting very used to that way of working. I write code 70% of the time, which is not very nice on a Chromebook indeed, but because Crouton is a chroot, I ended up with a rsync/git chroot which takes a few minutes to install and is almost always synced with my server both at home and at the colo. For most of the work that $249 thing is just definitely good enough. And if it breaks / gets totally destroyed / whatever, I have everything back in no time and ready to work.