Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
by hnriot on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:14PM
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if you're bypassing the ChromeOS by installing a full Linux stack then aren't you undoing the "just works" part and you're back to the same issue of "maintaining" an OS. And its a very expensive machine for what you're getting. The Air is less expensive for more hardware, and you get a real operating system.
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Not quite. Around 70% of the time, I'm in pure Chrome OS. The 30% I start a GNOME 3 session is to edit in Sublime and do some light image editing, and since GNOME 3 is pretty much full-GUI now without many config files, it's one setup and done.
Can I ask you the remaining 70% of the time what you do in pure Chrome OS? Web browsing, using Google docs etc..?
Browse HN and edit in Vim most of the time.
Can you switch without a full reboot?
I used to use a dirty hack for that (https://github.com/agravier/chromarch), but it was developed for the first generation of Samsung chromebooks, I don't know if it would work on the latest ones.
Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
by hayksaakian on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:11AM
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I would also like to know this.
This is the ridiculous opposite of "just works".
No, actually it isn't. A chroot environment to run Sublime and a few other GNOME applications is not the opposite of "just works." You're going to have to do a hell of a lot more configuration in OS X than in Chrome OS if you want to run X applications.
First of all, why would I want to run X applications?
That said, let's say I do -- so I download and double-click the MacPorts installer, and then run 'port install' to install an X11 app from a binary package.
Not that I'd want to.
Because of using the Samsung Chromebook for a while with ChromeOS, I started getting very used to that way of working. I write code 70% of the time, which is not very nice on a Chromebook indeed, but because Crouton is a chroot, I ended up with a rsync/git chroot which takes a few minutes to install and is almost always synced with my server both at home and at the colo. For most of the work that $249 thing is just definitely good enough. And if it breaks / gets totally destroyed / whatever, I have everything back in no time and ready to work.