Thanks for your post, Timothy. I have almost the same environment here: read/listen to books on smartphone or tablet or Kindle, otherwise use a Chromebook ( rarely, I'll use my MacBookPro). In fact, if I need a "real" linux ( or Windows ) environment, I just create one in the cloud and then ssh/RDP into it from the Chromebook. I can even do that from my tablets which have Bluetooth keyboards.
Have you ( or anyone else ) tried the dev_install script in the crosh shell to then use emerge to install software in Chrome OS? I've been able to install some things ( like tcpdump ), but not other things ( like gcc ). Have you ( or anyone else ) tried booting a different distro from either a USB or SD card? If so, how did that go? I have not, yet, but that's in my queue. Regards, - Robert On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:40 PM Timothy Scoppetta <[email protected]> wrote: > I use a kindle for the original use case described but my Pixelbook Go is > the best linux netbook (does that term still exist?) I've ever owned. I run > a full debian install in a container and have yet to find any app or tool > (GUI or command line) that I can't get working locally. I haven't tried > heavyweights like gimp or bitwig and I definitely wouldn't suggest > compiling on it. > > Happy to answer any questions about existing in the ecosystem, I use it > daily and for me it works great. > > This is the one I've had for a little under a year: > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YMGQYP6/ > -- > Timothy Scoppetta >
