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I just bought one, I'm going to give it an honest shot at being my only computer. As the reviews say, most of what I do is web (and web dev), so I would really

I just bought one, I'm going to give it an honest shot at being my only computer. As the reviews say, most of what I do is web (and web dev), so I would really like it to work. The question is will I be able to do any sort of docker/node/server-sidey stuff. We'll see. I'll give it a fair shake and even try running that stuff remotely. The Android apps thing is an interesting stop gap, maybe it'll be easier to get a text editor running from that environment?

rcarmo 12y ago
You can try Caret, which is a very nice editor, and Zed, which works with Dropbox. However, you will not be able to do much (if anything) with Docker without going into developer mode, and even then it will depend a lot on whether this model will break Crouton in any way. I'd say the tiny amount of storage will make it really hard to do anything productive with containers...
- Andrex 12y ago
  Caret has an absolutely horrible UI. :( I think Text is OK. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbokpmkimbfghdkjmjhdgbg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbok... Personally though my favorite is Tailor, even though I never got the live reloading to work (for HTML/JS.) It can pull from GitHub repos, which is pretty useful. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/mfakmogheanjhlgjhpijkhdjegllgenf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/mfakmoghean... Now that Polymer/Paper is out there I wish someone would use that for an editor, as it's likely it'll finally be the standardized UI for Chrome OS. Might be a fun weekend project...
tdicola 12y ago
I've had a Chromebook for over a year now and my best advice is to skip straight to installing a real Linux distribution (either using crouton or just natively). The reality of ChromeOS apps is much further off than the dream of some totally cloud connected digital worker. Throw Ubuntu on it, get Sublime Text, Atom, etc. and all your development tools, then go to town.

rcarmo 12y ago

You can try Caret, which is a very nice editor, and Zed, which works with Dropbox. However, you will not be able to do much (if anything) with Docker without going into developer mode, and even then it will depend a lot on whether this model will break Crouton in any way. I'd say the tiny amount of storage will make it really hard to do anything productive with containers...

Andrex 12y ago
Caret has an absolutely horrible UI. :( I think Text is OK. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbokpmkimbfghdkjmjhdgbg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbok... Personally though my favorite is Tailor, even though I never got the live reloading to work (for HTML/JS.) It can pull from GitHub repos, which is pretty useful. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/mfakmogheanjhlgjhpijkhdjegllgenf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/mfakmoghean... Now that Polymer/Paper is out there I wish someone would use that for an editor, as it's likely it'll finally be the standardized UI for Chrome OS. Might be a fun weekend project...

tdicola 12y ago

I've had a Chromebook for over a year now and my best advice is to skip straight to installing a real Linux distribution (either using crouton or just natively). The reality of ChromeOS apps is much further off than the dream of some totally cloud connected digital worker. Throw Ubuntu on it, get Sublime Text, Atom, etc. and all your development tools, then go to town.