@Dashrender said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@scottalanmiller said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@Obsolesce said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

I don't use the desktop for shortcuts even on Windows. I don't see why it's needed. It's just a clutter space, it's so much easier to have the shortcuts on the task bar, or start menu... Windows Key + Search works great on Windows and Linux GUI

I honestly like using it as a scratch space for temp files. That said... ChromeOS doesn't have temp files in that way, so even my purpose for it goes away.

yeah, that's true. Since editing a doc is in a webspace - you don't have the choice to really save the file/data to the desktop as a scratch pad... so you just have to save it into the cloud - it forces better behavior.

Right, exactly.

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

You can rename the files obviously, but you can't import them if you change the name it seems.

actually...maybe I cant import because it's already listed.

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Copy it and change the name, then reload Remmina. You'll now see a copy of the same thing. Go back and delete the original in the file system and reload Remmina again. Original disappears.

Tells me that one should be able to simply dump the connection configs on the minions, tighten down the permission to read only for the user and let them operate.

@Tim_G said in SAM's Chromebook Adventure 2017:

I'm thinking of getting a Chromebook just so I can have non-mobile (desktop mode) web access in places I do not want to have a normal sized laptop. Is 11.6" too big for that purpose?

Phone is just too small and so inconvenient for some things I want to do. I'd rather have a super small laptop just for web access and simple things.

11.6" is not very big. It's only slightly different than carrying around an iPad, but for me, way more usable.

Just as a funny side note, the article mentions running rm -r / on a linux system. That wouldn't do anything on a lot of Linux systems unless you add the -f flag.

Unless you put stuff there on purpose of course.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's true, I'm a huge ARM fan.

I thought that about you...

The third one is "running Crouton in a window inside ChromeOS"

That's quite a useful feature.

There always seems to be someone trying to put ubuntu on different things

Once they add a way to view unread messages that will be close enough for me to use OWA.