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Throbbing Angel said:
There is £100 off the ASUS Chromebook C302ca @ John Lewis again at the moment if anyone's interested
Intel Core M3, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, 12.5" £399.00 2 year guarantee included
editor and I both have one - both love it
Bought mine last time it was reduced to this price (August I think)

a quick Google reveals same price @ Currys and Amazon UK atm too

Can recommend the device - pick your own retailer, caveat emptor and all that
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It's a fantastic machine!
 
This is my photo editor of choice

polarr-photo-editor-chromebook-1.jpg


Best photo editor for your Chromebook in 2018
 
I have a chromebook (Asus C201) where I've replaced the bootloader with libreboot, and completely replaced Chrome OS and installed Arch GNU/Linux. Was just about 100% Free software.

Was... a few weeks ago I did an upgrade, and bam, it's kinda brick now. I tried to reinstall the OS, but same problem. Tried to install Devuan GNU/Linux, but can only only boot into console mode, no X11, and more pointlessly no networking. I think the wireless hardware is borked or something.
 
anjumahmed said:
I have a chromebook (Asus C201) where I've replaced the bootloader with libreboot, and completely replaced Chrome OS and installed Arch GNU/Linux. Was just about 100% Free software.

Was... a few weeks ago I did an upgrade, and bam, it's kinda brick now. I tried to reinstall the OS, but same problem. Tried to install Devuan GNU/Linux, but can only only boot into console mode, no X11, and more pointlessly no networking. I think the wireless hardware is borked or something.
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You can hardly be surprised if things go wrong if you insist on messing about with the OS!
 
editor said:
Why did you want to switch from Chrome OS anyway? It completely does the job for me (but then I get no thrills from fiddling about with fiddly OSs!).
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Here's the backstory: About a year ago, I became very sick of loud laptops. Specifically my old, loud laptop that was getting on with its age with what seemed like a jet engine fan. I realised what my ideal piece of hardware was - something fanless, lightweight, endless battery. Those are what my ideals of modern tech are.

Too many fanless laptops were pricey, was uninterested in Intel hardware because of non-Free microcode and didn't trust their thermal dissipation quality.

I thus narrowed down on to this one piece of hardware, an ARMv7 chip, 1.6ghz, 13 hours of battery, dead quiet, it *just happened* to have it's bootloader well documented, etc. The fact that it was a chromebook, and had chrome os, was a secondary detail.

Now, I think it's been acknowledged in this thread that Chrome OS isn't quite a complete operating system. *So to answer your question* Needed something more than a web browser, need to admin some remote servers, compiler, etc. Had the crazy idea just to go from my old laptop to this new, tiny, peaceful machine and continue my workflow as it was. So I just went out my way to replace the operating system. Yeah.

As it happens, during that time I got a Thinkpad X200T as a backup. Yeah, certainly relying on that now.
 
anjumahmed said:
Here's the backstory: About a year ago, I became very sick of loud laptops. Specifically my old, loud laptop that was getting on with its age with what seemed like a jet engine fan. I realised what my ideal piece of hardware was - something fanless, lightweight, endless battery. Those are what my ideals of modern tech are.

Too many fanless laptops were pricey, was uninterested in Intel hardware because of non-Free microcode and didn't trust their thermal dissipation quality.

I thus narrowed down on to this one piece of hardware, an ARMv7 chip, 1.6ghz, 13 hours of battery, dead quiet, it *just happened* to have it's bootloader well documented, etc. The fact that it was a chromebook, and had chrome os, was a secondary detail.

Now, I think it's been acknowledged in this thread that Chrome OS isn't quite a complete operating system. *So to answer your question* Needed something more than a web browser, need to admin some remote servers, compiler, etc. Had the crazy idea just to go from my old laptop to this new, tiny, peaceful machine and continue my workflow as it was. So I just went out my way to replace the operating system. Yeah.

As it happens, during that time I got a Thinkpad X200T as a backup. Yeah, certainly relying on that now.
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Chrome is very much more than 'just a web browser' though.
 
ive spotted a dell 11 chromebook with something called Crouton (linux i believe) for £125. im tempted.
 
redcogs said:
Can i write documents using chrome book? ive an ongoing book project which is 120,000 words which i need to continue (its typed on Libre Office writer)?

I am so sick of microsoft and google monitoring every aspect of online life.
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Course you can. You can use Google Docs which can import/export in just about any format you need, or there's Word Online or any number of Android word processors like Download Kingsoft Office Applications for Android, office apps .apk download or even Chrome extensions like this one
ONLYOFFICE Personal
 
redcogs said:
Can i write documents using chrome book? ive an ongoing book project which is 120,000 words which i need to continue (its typed on Libre Office writer)?

I am so sick of microsoft and google monitoring every aspect of online life.
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You can, but to get the most out of a Chromebook I'd suggest you need to embrace the Google eco system and maybe it wouldn't be the machine for you.
 
Online file Storage - Document Management Software | Zoho Docs
Zoho is another online suite that's free with some limitations.

I use the free version of Writer Writer, the Internet Typewriter Paid Pro versions available with added vavoom, as is usual these days.

I tried both of WPS Office [Kingsoft ]and OfficeSuite [mobisystems] on my new chromebook - both Android apps - both problematic for me with saving and formatting - ymmv of course

DocsToGo do a free Android friendly app too - used to love that on my Palm TX way back when - haven't tried it on my Chromebook.

FREEoffice TextMaker is supposed to be good also - I know a few people who use that on their devices including Chromebooks.

Loads to try.

What format(s) do you work in? .docx or others?
 
Funnily enough I've just acquired a proper camera. I've never had one before and the camera on Nokia 8 is a poor substitute for my S8 I lost in a mine, so I want to play with it more. Going to get an Eye Fi card and see if can get a nice system going to the Chromebook.
 
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