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Originally Posted by ndixon
Until I can run things like IntelliJ, Eclipse, Scrivener and pandoc on a Chromebook, it's not going to be enough. Also KSP.
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Developing in Java on a ChromeOS device is probably a non-starter, I guess, as it's deliberately not supported. However, there are some nice IDEs emerging. For code-editing, I like ShiftEdit and Caret.
My ChromeOS devices actually weaned me off Scrivener. Not because there's any replacement - the closest is a cloud Scrivener clone called Scriptito - but because the ChromeOS devices work so smoothly together that writing in the cloud using a combination of Google Docs and Workflowy is a joy.
While file sync services like Google Drive and DropBox do work under Windows, they're not as fast and as seamless as simply working in the cloud directly, for which the ChromeOS devices are optimised. Added to that is the joy of being able to move from my Chromebox desktop to my Chromebook without missing a beat - even down to having the same document open on both machines. Plus any change to the setup of one machine - browser bar, launcher icons, etc. - is instantly mirrored on the other.
Like you, I still have to go to my Windows machine for some things, so ChromeOS hasn't yet reached the point where it can replace Windows. But for the majority of the tasks that can be done on ChromeOS the experience there is so much smoother and hassle-free that my ChromeOS devices are my primary ones. My Windows machine is the one that was relegated to 'second PC'.
I originally bought the Chromebook as a 'backup device'. It became my primary one very, very quickly.
Graham