Thread: "Why Chromebook Pundits Are Out of Touch"
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Old 11-14-2013, 12:28 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by jj2me View Post
Stretching this bogus answer further, perhaps Wine (Windows Emulator) for Linux would work and thus allow OverDrive to be installed and run (I don't know, Crouton is a scaled back Ubuntu and I haven't tried this--though even if it's not in package management, I imagine a motivated person could use git and compile from source). You could even play the WMA DRM audiobooks in the Linux part of your Chromebook with Mplayer (you need to find the SID using freeme2).

Amazing what computing one can do with a $130 machine.
That's cool, but I'd have to know with 100% certainty that it would work with whatever Chromebook I might get. I only want one computer and it must run all of the programs I use; not most of them.
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