Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience

Re:Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience by Kuraj on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:22PM (#37396484)

I installed Chrome OS Flex on my old laptop and I couldn't be happier, honestly. It has a really light and snappy shell, I can run all these PWA apps at once without so much as a hiccup, and I can use crostini to run Signal and VS Code. The only thing it doesn't handle is Steam, but I couldn't really play anything natively on that machine even on Windows.

And despite Linux being in a virtual machine the general experience is very seamless - I can install .deb packages by simply double clicking them in the file explorer!

Oh and most importantly, GeForce NOW works and I can still use it to play BG3 :D

(it goes without saying that the experience is much better if you're already tied to Google ecosystem, as the file explorer integrates, optionally, with Google Drive)

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Re:Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience by nolist_policy on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:42PM (#37396748)

Wait, you can run crostini on ChromeOS Flex? I thought only real Chromebooks could do that.

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Re:Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience by gormak-dev on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:14PM (#37397120)

You can run Linux VM on Flex. You cannot use the Play store and Android apps.

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Re:Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience by Kuraj on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:22PM (#37427049)

Could you get the Play Store working if installed on a generic ARM laptop?

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Re:Developing on and for Chromebooks Is a Terrible Experience by Kuraj on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:24PM (#37427064)

Also worth noting that there is Chromium OS https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/

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