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Awesome Chromebook Desktop?
I'm writing an extensive review about my Samsung Series 3 ARM Chromebook. It is now around 1500 words according to wc -w, but I wanted to give a preview screenshot.
What you see is a Chromebook, running Ubuntu 13.04, the Awesome window manager, Conky and a few of my own awesome widgets.
I really love tiling window managers. What do you think of this screenshot and have you guys ever used Awesome (or any other tiling window manager), or a Chromebook with full blown linux?
Comments
$249 sure isn't bad for a cheap Ubuntu netbook that can actually do things..
@Raymii Is the performance good? I've been curious about how fast those things are.
I have a hard time getting Ubuntu Desktop to do anything without daily crashes to begin with . . .
I bought the Samsung Series 3 around a year ago. At the time things like the touchpad didn't work well at all in Ubuntu. Has the hardware support been improved?
That will be in the review of course, but as far as I can see it can handle a bunch of terminals with vim and git, firefox, thunderbird and vlc without hickups.
That might be because of either bad hardware or Unity.
I'm using crouton this time, so in there it is good. I've also installed Arch ARM, and in there with help of the Arch wiki it was also just working.
@Raymii is this the one you got?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-11-6-Geek-Squad-Certified-Refurbished-Chromebook-2GB-Mem-16GB-Flash-Mem/200957926977?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item2eca069e41
Yep thats it.
I can't buy it
damn you PayPal restrictions
Does it feel fast? It is cheap and it is much easier to code on that than a ipad.
It feels very fast. Chrome OS in general, but also the plain ubuntu install with Awesome. I've also ran XFCE for a while, that worked just fine ass well.
I'm already coding and writing on it. Since both Python and Ruby (and git and svn) are avaiable, I'm a happy camper. I use Vim as my editor/IDE, so that's covered to. However, Sublime or Rubymine for example are not available because it is an ARM.
The keyboard is really really good, so typing on it is almost a pleasure.