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!!
Use https://www.online-ide.com to program in various languages in your browser.
thank you!! But sadly that website doesn’t have tkinter… (Python module for GUI)
Can you use Replit? I don’t know for sure but they might support Tkinter
I have a Replit account!!
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.”
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
Programming, sure, it’s the runtime environment that’s lacking.
But I used to do almost all my web development on a Chromebook.
There are great online IDEs. You edit files that are on the filesystem of some virtual server, and never need to install anything.
If you want it to sync with your Google account, gnome and other distros have an “online accounts” setting where you can log in with your Google account and see your Google drive as a mounted drive. Then you can store your files there.
I like gitpod.io and GitHub codespaces
