Thanks for this article. I have been looking at Chromebooks lately because I really love the simplicity of them. (I dislike Windows) I am fine with most of my work living in the cloud as long as it's secure. The only concern I have is the text-editors currently available. I am glad you agree that the Chrome OS shouldn't be hacked. I'd be afraid to do that. Saw one at Walmart today, a lovely Acer Chromebook 15.6 which someone had tried to put into Developer Mode. Sad. However, I did watch this Chrome Developer Demo by Google. They show running Linux in container on Chrome OS (no real hacking required)and actually run VS Code in a Linux container. Here's the link for that in case you are interested.
Yeah, ChromeOS support for Linux apps has been a great feature for developers.
I don't think all Chromebooks get access to this feature, so I would check and be sure that this feature is available on that Chromebook before you commit to it.
Thanks for this article. I have been looking at Chromebooks lately because I really love the simplicity of them. (I dislike Windows) I am fine with most of my work living in the cloud as long as it's secure. The only concern I have is the text-editors currently available. I am glad you agree that the Chrome OS shouldn't be hacked. I'd be afraid to do that. Saw one at Walmart today, a lovely Acer Chromebook 15.6 which someone had tried to put into Developer Mode. Sad. However, I did watch this Chrome Developer Demo by Google. They show running Linux in container on Chrome OS (no real hacking required)and actually run VS Code in a Linux container. Here's the link for that in case you are interested.
Yeah, ChromeOS support for Linux apps has been a great feature for developers.
I don't think all Chromebooks get access to this feature, so I would check and be sure that this feature is available on that Chromebook before you commit to it.
I am looking into that. Lists, lists everywhere...which ones can I trust? Is there a way to check with Google?
There is no official list that I am aware of, but I'm not sure if you have come across this or not: xda-developers.com/chromebooks-lin...