"Why Chromebook Pundits Are Out of Touch"

[Glorfindel]

Originally Posted by Rizla

The concept of installing dual-boot Linux, then running Wine within it, and spending all that time getting stuff to work, and then maybe it won't work. Meh...Why bother unless you want to play with Linux? The only real appeal for me is the price-tag.
I guess if you know Linux well and want a purely Linux box on the cheap, then it can make sense. But I'm so locked-in to Windows progs. Maybe there's a good, light-weight Linux word-processor that fits my needs, but maybe not. Ultimately, for me, it's not worth the distraction atm. I'll keep my eyes open though. Hopefully Chromebooks will force down Windows based devices.

libre office

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

libre office

Thanks, but I fear nothing will touch Atlantis for my needs.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by booklover6

So it probably wouldn't be too good for Calibre. I wonder if Minecraft will work well on it. That would be one way to get the kids off my desk top!

The Raspberry Pi runs minecraft. $35 Raspberry Pi + SD card + keyboard + mouse + TV = kids off desk top.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Rizla

The concept of installing dual-boot Linux, then running Wine within it, and spending all that time getting stuff to work, and then maybe it won't work. Meh...Why bother unless you want to play with Linux? The only real appeal for me is the price-tag.

The question is, why run both WINE and a dual boot Windows/linux?

I guess if you know Linux well and want a purely Linux box on the cheap, then it can make sense. But I'm so locked-in to Windows progs. Maybe there's a good, light-weight Linux word-processor that fits my needs, but maybe not. Ultimately, for me, it's not worth the distraction atm. I'll keep my eyes open though. Hopefully Chromebooks will force down Windows based devices.

What Atlantis features do you use that say, LibreOffice doesn't have? Or for that matter, Google Docs?

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The question is, why run both WINE and a dual boot Windows/linux?

What Atlantis features do you use that say, LibreOffice doesn't have? Or for that matter, Google Docs?

So I can run Windows programs within Linux.

I've read that overwriting the Chrome OS with Linux is a lot more dangerous than installing Linux next to Chrome OS (i.e. brick dangerous).

Re: Atlantis. Off the top of my head:
Set color-scheme view to anything, including borders, etc. In full screen mode I have a screen that is totally black with nothing on it except my white text.
Very good keyboard shortcut customization. Very light system footprint. Tabbed documents. Menu system is configurable (so I can strip out anything I don't use). The list goes on.

And also I need a 3rd-party file manager (with tabbed windows). Several of these exist under Windows. Probably a solution exists under Linux, but again, it's a distraction to migrate. And the functionality may not be equal after all that...Windows has the most software.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Rizla

So I can run Windows programs within Linux.

I've read that overwriting the Chrome OS with Linux is a lot more dangerous than installing Linux next to Chrome OS (i.e. brick dangerous).

Re: Atlantis. Off the top of my head:
Set color-scheme view to anything, including borders, etc. In full screen mode I have a screen that is totally black with nothing on it except my white text.

Fullscreen mode in LibreOffice --see screenshot.
I have never cared much about this sort of thing, so this is the limit of my knowledge. It is possible you can do a lot more with this, but I'd be the wrong person to ask regardless.

Very good keyboard shortcut customization. Very light system footprint. Tabbed documents. Menu system is configurable (so I can strip out anything I don't use). The list goes on.

Tools ==> Customize lets you configure the menu (but apparently not the context menu) and map an extensive list of Functions to shortcut keys. According to pacman, its install size is 342 MB not counting dependencies, but it is quite snappy on my 10-year-old computer. (Then again, most things are, now I installed linux.)

And also I need a 3rd-party file manager (with tabbed windows). Several of these exist under Windows. Probably a solution exists under Linux, but again, it's a distraction to migrate. And the functionality may not be equal after all that...Windows has the most software.

Every file browser I have seen in linux does tabbing. Tabbing is a customization type of thing, and linux has always done that much better than Windows. The sheer ease of use with no configuration needed provided by linux file browsers out-of-the-box is one of the advantages of linux over Windows, because you never need to install a non-default file browser. It Just Works.

And if you are doing Crazy Things with a special third-party file browser for Windows, you can definitely do the same crazy things with a linux one like spaceFM.

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Anyway, you don't need to use linux to use LibreOffice anyway. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.../?type=win-x86

[afv011]

VMware, Google and Nvidia have teamed up with a plan to bring the most demanding desktop apps to relatively piddly Chromebooks.

VMware already has relationships with the other two companies mentioned above. The pact with Google sees it offer the BLAST client to pipe apps from Horizon View into Chromebooks. The Nvidia relationship sees that company's vGPU kit used to virtualize GPUs and parcel out their power to virtual desktops, the better to deliver things like CAD apps to virtual dekstops.

The new deal combines all of those elements so that graphically rich apps will work on Chromebooks.

Source

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

libre office

If I bought a Chromebook, I would just run WordStar for DOS under DOSBox, like I do in Linux now. Then I would just move it to LibreOffice (on my Desktop) for formatting.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by rcentros

If I bought a Chromebook, I would just run WordStar for DOS under DOSBox, like I do in Linux now. Then I would just move it to LibreOffice (on my Desktop) for formatting.

George, is that you?

Shari

[Kumabjorn]

Costanza or Jetson?

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Costanza or Jetson?

Martin

Shari

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Costanza or Jetson?

...of the Jungle

[Dopedangel]

http://chrome.blogspot.sg/2014/09/fi...coming-to.html

Looks like android app support has come to chrome os. Has anyone tried them yet.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

http://chrome.blogspot.sg/2014/09/fi...coming-to.html

Looks like android app support has come to chrome os. Has anyone tried them yet.

Interesting... but, I don't use any of the 4 apps announced so far.

[Glorfindel]

Looks like MS is ready for battle. Cheap W8 w/bing laptops are well on their way.