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Just to add a competing anecdote - my mother absolutely loves hers. She spends 6+ hours a day on it. She runs an etsy shop, keeps up with email, keeps up with s
by acgourley 13y ago
Just to add a competing anecdote - my mother absolutely loves hers. She spends 6+ hours a day on it. She runs an etsy shop, keeps up with email, keeps up with social networks. She hasn't had to worry about anti-virus software, printer drivers, OS updates or backups. It's a huge win for her, and for me.
- csmuk 13y agoConversely and factually rather than merely anecdotal, my Brother laser printer, Canon dye sub and big HP laser printers don't work if you plug them into a chromebook. Nor will it print to my print server. Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and OSX work instantly. As it's a sealed featureless box, how would one proceed here?
- acgourley 13y agoDefinitely annoying. I'd tell her to buy another printer before buying another computer though.
- csmuk 13y agoI wouldn't. I'd expect it to work. This is 2013, not the pre-GDI printer fragmentation nightmare of the 80's.
- VikingCoder 13y agoChrome Cloud Printing. You have a Desktop plugged in to the printer. You set up Cloud Printing, and now every time you're logged in to a Chrome Browser (or Chromebook), from anywhere on the planet, you can print to that printer. Chromebooks don't replace desktops, not for most people. They enhance the crap out of them, in my opinion. Chrome Remote Desktop is awesome.
- csmuk 13y agoIt doesn't work with my dye sub printer or HP network laser. I tried. Documents never arrive at the printer. Windows has had remote desktop since 1997. It's had remote assistance since 2002. I've spent 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for 5 years working over remote desktop sessions with shared sound, disks, printers and even recently USB devices. That's awesome.
- VikingCoder 13y agoGoogle has two-factor authentication and does the tunneling for Chrome Remote Desktop for you, so you don't have to set it up. From my Chromebook, I can remote control a Mac or a Linux box, too. You've tried setting up Cloud printing on your desktop, printing to your HP network laser, and then using it remotely from another Chrome, and it never worked? Your experience is the opposite of mine - it works great.
- csmuk 13y agoRemote assistance requires no configuration. It doesn't do two factor authentication though. I have PuTTY which is pretty good at remotely controlling my OpenBSD machines. I don't use OSX. That is correct. Nothing at all happened.
- VikingCoder 13y agoI can remote into my home desktop right now. I believe with Remote Assistance, someone has to set it up on both ends, correct? I wouldn't be surprised if your workplace is blocking Cloud Printing. That's a bummer.
- csmuk 13y agoThat is correct. I wouldn't want it any other way. Two-factor or not,a compromised google account is a lot of eggs in one basket. Normal remote desktop is available to my desktop machine via authenticating with the firewall first. It doesn't. My workplace is home and I am the network administrator.
- what_ever 13y agoWhy wouldn't a tablet be suitable for this usecase?
- acgourley 13y agoPerhaps now. Prices are getting cheaper and tablet multitasking is getting better. Keep in mind my mom is a "non-technical producer" which means a large amount of typing and multitasking. A built in touchpad/keyboard and a tabbed OS is a bit more optimal than a touch interface with optional external keyboard.