if you’ve ever used a Chromebook, you’ll know there’s an option in advanced settings that lets you install a Linux VM so that you can install IDEs, games, etc… I used it to install GIMP, Krita and more. But I don’t want it anymore mainly because it doesn’t sync with your Google account, so what can I do?? I want to keep programming but I don’t want to use the Linux system. Thank you!!
Honestly, I’d just ditch the chromebook and buy a decent laptop. Alternatively it might be possible to just swap out ChromeOS for Linux
Don’t understand the hate though. I find ChromeOS a good environment to do small programming tasks with its Linux VM.
Then there is always the fact that ChromeOS comes from Google…
Don’t take it too personally, I just don’t like buying spyware. But to each their own
Use https://www.online-ide.com to program in various languages in your browser.
Set up code-server on a server somewhere. I made a Docker container with it behind SSL in nginx. Works great and you can “bookmark as an app.”
There are great online IDEs. You edit files that are on the filesystem of some virtual server, and never need to install anything.
Programming, sure, it’s the runtime environment that’s lacking.
But I used to do almost all my web development on a Chromebook.
