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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Idk that Chromebooks count as being super locked down when most of them can run Linux apps.

  I mean…sort of? I used some advanced computer knowledge last time I ran anything interesting on a Chromebook. I was manually installing basic missing shell utilities, just to get other stuff to run.

  Maybe they have opened ChromeOS up more, since?

  But you make a good point. ChromeOs is more intentionally minimalist than intentionally locked down.

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can install a full Linux distro now. At a high level it’s basically like WSL2 for windows.

    I had to do professional software development work on one at one point. It was completely cursed but it worked.

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, that’s cool! And yeah, sounds kind of cursed, too.

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