Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your primary machine?

Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by bergie on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:49AM (#15408119)

VS Code should work fine with crouton. I've seen people running it on some older Chromebooks.

And if the container support lands soon, it might be possible to run developer tools like that without flipping the developer mode switch.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by jcun4128 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:54AM (#15408148)

Really? I think if I remember right I bought this ARM version of a chromebook ("octacore" processor) and I wasn't able to install it so I had to use alternatives like Geany.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by Lerc on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:58AM (#15408171)

I use vs-code on arm crouton so it is doable.

I use the headmelted build. looke like it has an actual website now https://code.headmelted.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by jcun4128 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:01AM (#15408182)

Oh I was not aware of that cool!

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by bergie on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:58AM (#15408170)

Ah, yes. ARM might be a problem, as there might not be VS Code builds available. There are tons of x86 Chromebooks out there, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your prim... by jcun4128 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:01AM (#15408183)

Yeah I got unlucky I didn't even notice/think about it at the time.

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