And they are much smaller than the big bricks. One charger to rule them all (USB-C) is actually really really nice. (And if they are PWAs, then they actually work off line also. Pin them to the shelf so that you magically have an “app” for them. Here are some usability things that I’vįull screen webpages have much fewer distractions. If you want to take the plunge, take a look at my other posts on it, Writing Code on a Chrome book, and More lessons learned. But if you can live with your tmux to manage your terminal settings and, if you need something more, remote desktop off this machine onto a remote machine, then it does basically all you need. Combined with the fact that Chromebook’s security features make the filesystem a little… weird… it’s a situation where you need to work around the constraints. Like cell phone apps everything lives in a sandboxed environment, so getting things to work together on the machine itself is a little… weird. However I was never much of an IDE user so personally that isn’t a problem. This is a step back from the IDE days, so that’s a minus for sure. Termux is still an amazing little linux environment to build software in, but you are back into the world of VIM or Emacs. These skills of working on the command line and transparently connecting to remote systems come into play here. My development career started out in the tail end of the minis and the beginning of the workstation days. So, on the plus side, it helps with focus, it’s much less cluttered, and there’s a whole lot less ceremony than there is on a laptop. My iPad is now fully dedicated to YouTube Kids and I haven’t touched it in months. (I’m ignoring whatever it is that the touchbar is.) Flipping the thing over as a tablet is great if you want to do some long form reading, or consuming videos or whatever. (I do a lot of coding and a lot of email, so I’m bunching these there buttons all the time.) The touch screen is actually very useful, I can’t believe Apple has blundered so far by resisting that. The keyboard is nice so entering in text is obviously way easier if that’s what you do. No menu bar hovering over you, no desktop peeking out from behind, just one focused on one app.īut it’s got a lot of advantages of a laptop. There’s also less distractions than a regular laptop since the UI basically assumes on big window that’s more or less full screen, again like a cell phone. Its just easy to grab the Chromebook to check something real quick, send out an email, whatever in the same way that unlocking your phone is easy. Like a cellphone, it starts quickly, so dipping in and out is easy. This machine is something in between a laptop and a cellphone. This machine is fun! Everything is so much faster and less cluttered, and I’m able to focus more. My experiment with the Chromebook has continued longer than I really expected.
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