ARM processors are the biggest caveat on cheaper Chromebooks. I bought the Acer C720 which had an Intel x86_64 processor so everything worked (unless it needed more than 2GB of RAM).
However, you should still be able to use web IDEs like Cloudstorm on Firefox which IMO is the best ARM compatible browser. Docker now has multi-arch builds for most popular images so things like Node, Python, Ruby and Java should work just fine.
ARM processors are the biggest caveat on cheaper Chromebooks. I bought the Acer C720 which had an Intel x86_64 processor so everything worked (unless it needed more than 2GB of RAM).
However, you should still be able to use web IDEs like Cloudstorm on Firefox which IMO is the best ARM compatible browser. Docker now has multi-arch builds for most popular images so things like Node, Python, Ruby and Java should work just fine.
That’s encouraging! I may come back to you for help if I have issues😜