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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by mav3rick on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:29PM (#19383390)
Hey most Intel Chromebooks now support Crostini i.e. you can run native Linux programs . It runs in a VM under the hood and it's well integrated with the outside OS. Give it a shot.
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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by robocat on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:05PM (#19385609)
I would love to, but how many Chromebooks have an i9, 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD?!

(I wrote another comment for why I use a high-spec laptop: basically multiple VM's and greedy development tools).

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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by valker43 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:22AM (#19387627)
Maybe a dumb question. But why run those VM's (or the development tools) strictly locally? I have a small server at home for that. Or alternatively there are free tiers on GCP/AWS/Azure. The advent and maturity of WebAssembly/PWA, could help there as well. But we're not there yet obviously.
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