Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by ghaff on Monday April 25, 2016 @02:00PM (#11566016)

I find Chromebooks are increasingly good for a lot of things but, no, I doubt they're ideal for a lot of college students. (Pre-college is a somewhat different matter, especially if there's a family computer they can use for those applications that aren't accessible through a Chromebook.)

With things like Google Docs, Chromebooks are pretty powerful. I often travel with one rather than a laptop these days. But many college students are likely to run into situations where they need apps that aren't available for a Chromebook and, especially so long as Chromebooks aren't the norm, that's likely to be a problem.

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by jitl on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:30PM (#11567087)

I used a Chromebook as my only laptop for my last 2 years at UC Berkeley. I did all my note-taking in Google's Docs stuff. For my CS course work, I used the excellent Chrome SSH app [1] to remote into department machines. Chrome SSH is so good that I now use it on all my Windows machines instead of PuTTY!

The only thing I couldn't use my Chromebook for was for design-related activities -- running Illustrator or Photoshop to make posters or t-shirts and the like. I ended up setting up Guacamole [2] on my home network, so I could remote to my desktop windows box to use Illustrator on-the-go.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... [2] http://guac-dev.org/

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