[GNC] Chromebooks

GWB gwb at 2realms.com
Sat Oct 6 18:05:17 EDT 2018


Wow; that's excellent.  The Crouton page also mentions Crostini:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md

Which does not require running with dev enabled.

Pixelbooks work with Crostini.  Here's the hardware list by motherboard:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Supported-Now

So three options at least: Crostini, Crouton, or Google Play Store.

Gordon
On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:56 PM Jim Passmore <jim at passmore4.com> wrote:
>
> I can heartily endorse crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton)  as a
> way to install Linux on a chromebook.  I did it for a couple years, and
> Ubuntu ran beautifully, but there will of course be a dependency on how
> powerful it is.   I had an Acer C720 with 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, and an Intel
> I3, where many Chromebooks of that era had 2GB RAM, 16GB SSD, and a Celeron.
>
> You will have to use developer mode, and enabling that does a power-wash on
> the chromebook, but other than being careful not to lose any files, it's
> pretty easy.  I would definitely give it a try if I were you.
>
> --
>
> *Jim*
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:50 PM randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So I'm not feelin' real warm and fuzzy at the moment, notwithstanding that
> > I
> > lost my laptop earlier today
> >
> > So I can't get Gnucash on a Chromebook
> >
> > So I can't get Gnucash Portable to work on a Chromebook
> >
> > If I want to "rely" on the GnuCash app (which I realize has zippo to do
> > with
> > the the "authentic" GnuCash), I have the challenge since I currently have
> > no
> > access to GnuCash, to export my account structure to that app unless I
> > spend
> > oodles of hours re-creating it, and I wonder even if I somehow did, how
> > that
> > app would accommodate the tons of data that I have in my backup GnuCash
> > files (I know, I know, that's not a topic for this site).
> >
> > Sorta feelin' like what it must feel like when a nut laughs at a screw
> >
> > Bartender?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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