Subj : Re: Chromebook
To   : Tiny
From : solarbaby
Date : Sat Jan 21 2017 02:39:00

I bought my first chromebook on Cyber Monday of 2016.
Crouton was installed immediately. I mostly love crouton.
I began running crouton with sudo startxfce4 -n xenial.
I ran it this way exclusively for linux for the first month.  There were
problems.  Seemingly random crashes. The system didn't even need a heavy load
on it to crash.. Most of the time I was just loading up syncterm and chatting
on mrc with Pequito.  Sometimes I crashed 10 times per night, just sitting in
chat.

Ok, I read up a bit and I think even though loading it the way I did was the
official way I don't believe it was the recommended way.  For 1 week now I've
been loading it differently.  now I sudo enter-chroot -n xenial, which then
puts me in a tab on the chrome browser and its cli instead of being directly
in xfce4.  If I want to load up linux software for example VLC I would put
myself into screen or tmux and load up a new terminal on a new tab using this
command.
xiwi -T xfce4-terminal
That loads up a new tab on chrome with another terminal.  I can load up
plank, vlc, firefox, pretty much most things right from that new terminal.  
I can go back to the first terminal and and tmux and create a new screen
again, then load up new terminal tab windows.

Kinda sloppy way of doing things but actually if you put xiwi -T
xfce4-terminal inside .bashrc you can easily just type a much easier shorter
alias.  If you use plank on linux or any other start menu type of thing then
you have easy access to load up your most used apps.  Alternatively just
write a easy bash script that links to your apps.  Plank is probably the
easiest way.

Shoot I hope I didn't confuse you.

So.....  I totally love my chromebook.  Im a power user.  My BBS and website
are setup to run right from the chromebook :)

in case your curious I purchased the Asus Chromebook Flip with 4 gigs of ram.

Would I make the same choice if I had to do it over again?  Yes!  This is a
very capable low powered inexpensive system with google play apps, linux apps
and the best web browser available today.

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