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id: 1674
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title: 10 Months on a Chromebook Check-in
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date: 2018-08-23T18:58:00-06:00
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author: don
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guid: https://www.duckland.org/?p=1674
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permalink: /2018/08/10-months-on-a-chromebook-check-in/
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- Chrome OS
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- PixelBook
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So, way <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2017/11/really-moving-in-on-the-chromebook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">back in November</a>, I decided to use ChromeOS has my main OS. And, then in <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2018/01/a-month-in-using-chromeos-only/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January</a>, I did a check-in on using ChromeOS for a month. Fast forward to-day, and I am still using my PixelBook as my daily driver for all things.
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I still use the <a href="/category/hardware/r810/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">R810</a> and the x260 to test new Linux distros just to see what is happening in that space, but not to do anything else.
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The battery on the PixelBook last me most of the day when out and about, and the size makes it easy to carry. Last month, I even used it to give a talk to a [group](https://www.katorination.com) I help run, and it worked flawlessly then.
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I still want to do some things via the command line, so for a while I was using Chromebrew to get by, but that has a couple of issues for me. The first is that a lot of what I wanted had not been ported to that system yet, so I had to go and build it. The second, and for me more important, was that to use it, I had to turn off some of the security built into ChromeOS to make it work. A couple of months ago, Google announced Project Crostini, which uses Linux containers to allow you to run a full Linux (default is Debian) image under ChromeOS, using all the default ChromeOS security, which makes it a big win in my book.
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Add on top of that, that the PixelBook can run most Android apps, and I have everything I need currently. ‘But, what about photography?’ you ask. Well, I have found that I needed to rework my photo work flow, but I have found something that works for me. All the photos that I have uploaded this year were posted under ChromeOS and so far, it is working for me. |