10 Months on a Chromebook Check-in

So, way back in November,  I decided to use ChromeOS has my main OS.  And, then in January, 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.

I still use the R810 and the x260 to test new Linux distros just to see what is happening in that space, but not to do anything else.

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 I help run, and it worked flawlessly then.

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.

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.