I've been using a Samsung Series 5 XE55 for quite a while - about 2 years now. I've installed crouton and the extension that lets it run in a browser tab. It w

I've been using a Samsung Series 5 XE55 for quite a while - about 2 years now. I've installed crouton and the extension that lets it run in a browser tab. It works pretty well for development tasks. I also use a couple of cloud dev environments (nitrous.io and codeanywhere) and of course just straight up ssh into a server if I feel like it. I tend to work in any of ruby, python, c#, go, php, general front end javascript, html, css and lots of database stuff - so essentially various forms of web dev. I've never really had any trouble getting things up and running in croutaon - even managed to get mono and c# working and the latest visual studio code on it. Which of the three options I use (crouton, cloud, ssh) is really down to whim. I'm comfortable using different dev environments, which I think helps - I'm not fanatical about any particular editor or tool chain - so I'm happy in vim, sublime text, visual studio, online editors etc and climb in and out of languages as I need to. The key for me is to have a disciplined git workflow with my repositories stashed nicely online. The only thing I miss now and then, is some easy image optimisation in the chromeos itself. I kind of love the fact that the chromebook has great battery life, a pretty comfortable keyboard and that it's basically disposable (I got a factory second for less than £100). It's also pretty sturdy. I've travelled a fair bit with it, dropped it and banged it around, it's been splashed, had coffee poured on it, children's grubby fingers poking the screen - I just don't care...I wipe it down and carry on. It's kind of nice to not be precious about my equipment and the discipline a small hard drive forces on me means everything is properly stashed and backed up so if the machine dies...well c'est la vie.