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Re:WASM 3.0 Completed by giancarlostoro on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:52AM (#45289721)
I have wanted to try Chrome for the longest time but I cant justify overspending (you need a lot of memory for the modern web) and not being able to install half the Linux apps I would want OOTB (out of the box is a big deal for me).

I am still shocked Google has not rubbed two brain cells together and built a serious Google ChromeOS version for developers with a real desktop environment and real access to Linux, and keeping the browser as sandboxed as they have. I would spend top dollar on such a laptop. Heck it could come with an easy way to install Android Studio, and native apps for things like Hangouts or whatever they call it now.

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Re:WASM 3.0 Completed by petralithic on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:32PM (#45292509)
That's literally ChromeOS now, it comes with a terminal built in and you can run any Linux apps
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Re:WASM 3.0 Completed by giancarlostoro on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:17PM (#45293798)
Without doing too much fancy stuff can I just run Zed or JetBrains IDEs?
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Re:WASM 3.0 Completed by yellowapple on Friday September 19, 2025 @01:14AM (#45298182)
Back when I tried to daily-drive a Chromebook Pixel it was, like, one flag in the settings app to enable Crostini and run whatever (GNU/)Linux program my heart desired, and that was many years ago; can't imagine it's gotten any harder (especially now that even Android is starting to offer similarly-turnkey Linux app support through the newfangled Terminal app).
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Re:WASM 3.0 Completed by petralithic on Saturday September 20, 2025 @11:47AM (#45314356)
Yes you can run them, they work well.
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