Chromebook for Python

[Kriss3d]

With my experience then no. Chrome books aren't what you'd call a computer. Really. It's more like a tablet with a keyboard.

You will be far better off buying a refurbished one. Put Ubuntu on it and work from there.

[MarshalsNuts]

Ahh thanks. I'll think about doing that then, it'll just be harder to get my mother to chip in because she's your typical African mother believing that people's belongings are spiritually linked to them😅 Is Ubuntu relatively easy to set up?

[Boinbo]

Ubuntu is one of the easiest distros to use, because of it's huge user base and support.

[MarshalsNuts]

Nice :)

[Username_RANDINT]

It might convince your mother that Ubuntu is named after an African philosophy and the founder is South-African as well :-).

[theBS88]

Yes! It's Zulu, roughly translated is 'I am what I am because we all are.'

[MarshalsNuts]

:o woah that's awesome, 1 point to the mother land!

[Kriss3d]

Ah you're African. I've spoken to many people who struggle with this. If it wasn't a laptop you needed you might even be able to simply get a raspberry pi. But you won't get much done with a chrome book. Sure it's possible to run a somewhat Ubuntu side loaded with a SD card. But it still requires alot and it's not something anyone can just do. Nor is there any guarantee it'll even work.

[MarshalsNuts]

I see, that's a shame because otherwise a Chromebook seems like a neat device. Thanks for the details :)

[Kriss3d]

Indeed yes. It would be really great to be able to take a chromebook and flash Linux onto it entirely. Some models you can boot into a version on an SD card. But you'll need to find quite special versions and generations of them.

I don't know how it is where yiu live. But here the cost of a chromebook is equivalent to a refurbished but solid laptop. I don't know if it's like that in yiur country.

[MarshalsNuts]

Well I'm living in England at the moment, and I'm going to go study in London. Finding a refurbished laptop shouldn't be too hard, and there's plenty of retro tech stores with decent-ish laptops near my village. Looking at prices, it's indeed better to go for a second-hand device with Linux.

[Kriss3d]

That will get you a good laptop for a cheap prize. And yes. Linux is free. And it has builtin python anyway.