Me: Fuck I love my chromebook!

The world: Why would you love Chromebooks, you cant even do anything with ChromeOS?!

Me: *Sit's down and listens to music and podcasts for 3 hours* Oh look, still got 82% battery...

Which one you have?

Enable dev mode and start the chons she'll than you can use chroots for dev things

OK, but doing nothing but listening to music for 3 hours makes it an mp3 player, does it do anything else.

Like 80% of what I do is FE dev with node and JS, would this be a worth investment/alternative to my MSI with Ubuntu on it?

My main computer is a Chromebook.
I can go 2 days straight doing web-dev stuff without charging. I love it.

@RTRMS

You can natively run node on chrome os using the chromebrew package manager.

@inpothet

I literally do everything in nassh (the chrome shell)

@ewpratten how did you do it? I mean what command did you execute resp. what package exactly did you install so that npm is working?

crew install npm/node/nodejs..?

@epsylon76 I have the Samsung Chromebook plusz didn't like the black on the Chromebook pro

@HIGHphen

I don't remember...just run

Crew search | grep -e "node"

Then it should show you.

@ewpratten thanks a lot :) this is amazing because you don't have to install an entire OS via crouton just for compiling and setting up your projects.

@ewpratten what editor do you use on your chromebook? are you using VSC/Atom/etc via crouton/xiwi or e.g. caret?

@HIGHphen
Caret and vim. And I also make heavy use of tmux when working with vim.

Can you install visual studio or PHPStorm on a Chromebook?

How about photoshop, lightroom or sketch?

How about sequel pro?

@lxmcf

@Nanos The most on-topic comment so far. ?!

I mean listening to music for 3hours... my phone can do the same

Meh...my laptop lasts 11 hours of coding in PHPStorm and like 15+ when using normal editor...

@ewpratten wait really?
Was looking to port vs code to chrome is but it used node, well this changes things!

@SSDD nope but not every computer has to be a Dev battle station, I use it for web development, writing my book, website management and literally anything I do web wise

@sSam yeah while I had full brightness, didn't even lose 20% and was jumping between Twitter, devRant and Google docs

@lxmcf ok, it's fucking impressive

@sSam granted it is probably put down to the OS being so light weight, guarantee if it had windows or Mac on it the battery would last 5 minutes doing the same

@SSDD @lxmcf

The big downside of chromeos is, for now , you can not run graphical linux programs.

Although the desktop environment that chromeos uses is Wayland based.

I'm pretty sure that you could make a chrome "app" that interfaces with a second x server so that you can run programs.

Or just use crouton.