Wow! Nice to know there are success stories like yours. When we were having issues and trying to determine which way we should go to, we just couldn’t find good answers on the CB side. Perhaps we should give it another go!
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 5:34 PM tbrunz <wild.id...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course, ask a half-dozen people about this subject and you'll get 6 > different responses... > > Between myself, my wife, my daughter, family, friends, we've had at least 8 > CBs. None have failed. My wife is still using (and loving) the 2015 Pixel > LS CB I got 5 years ago. Not even the battery has degraded. > > My daughter used one CB for her entire undergrad program. (I offered to > get > her a "real laptop" before she started as a Freshman, but she insisted she > wanted a CB). The only thing I needed to do was add Eclipse and the Java > JDK to it for one of her classes. (The programming nerds in her class were > impressed that she was developing Java on a CB.) > > For graduation, I upgraded her to a Pixelbook CB. I rebuilt her original > CB > with GalliumOS -- a Linux distro optimized to run CB hardware. It's still > running... > > Chromebooks run Android, Linux, Chrome apps, Windows apps... All except > Mac > apps. > > First-world problems indeed... And mostly a religious issue. I'm fine if > you use Apple products. But I haven't a solution to suggest in that case! > > For the record, I have a Pixelbook (the photo), but I also have a DIY tower > and a Dell 7710. The CB gives me portability + Pharo. > > (If you do go back to a CB, just be sure you check the specs: Intel CPU > only, and be sure it can run "Crostini" so you get Linux containers.) > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > > -- Russ Whaley whaley.r...@gmail.com
