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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:02PM (#21943031)
"Having a lightweight laptop that does nothing more than provide a portal to more powerful machines enters the consumer field"

Ah, the return of the X Terminal, dinosaur of the 1980s and early-mid 1990s. If that, because it barely even lived.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by Keverw on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:35AM (#21944248)
Sounds like a Chromebook. However there is Linux App support now inside of a container... So you could run VSCode, Node and Yarn on a Chromebook now or install GIMP.
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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by TheAdamAndChe on Friday January 03, 2020 @07:36AM (#21945361)
You can already run those in a chroot environment, but most Chromebooks are too underpowered for them to work well under any real load.
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