About a decade ago, my uncle introduced me to Linux. He gave me a Knoppix live-cd, which I promptly played around with. It was slow, and a lot of things didn't work, but the concept of a free OS that wasn't Windows that could run off of a CD got my attention. Ever since then, I've been trying, on and off, to build some real skills, in one distro or another... and I've been failing.
In college, I set it up on some older laptops. When I got a new laptop, I ended up shelving them.
More recently, I set up a dual-boot on my desktop. I kept forgetting to boot to it.
The Raspberry Pi got shelved, mostly because using it in my current setup is a major pain.
Then I tried setting up a VM on my current laptop. Turned it off because of battery draw and lack of need.
I figured out that what I needed was a convenient, Linux-only machine- something with no VMs to start or special boot options to choose. So I got a Chromebook, upgraded the SSD, and loaded up Chrubuntu. It works remarkably well... except I've nothing (aside from Firefox and LibreOffice) on it to do. Can anybody recommend useful/entertaining Linux apps I can throw on this thing? Nothing that uses heavy 3D graphics, please.
Thanks in advance!
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In college, I set it up on some older laptops. When I got a new laptop, I ended up shelving them.
More recently, I set up a dual-boot on my desktop. I kept forgetting to boot to it.
The Raspberry Pi got shelved, mostly because using it in my current setup is a major pain.
Then I tried setting up a VM on my current laptop. Turned it off because of battery draw and lack of need.
I figured out that what I needed was a convenient, Linux-only machine- something with no VMs to start or special boot options to choose. So I got a Chromebook, upgraded the SSD, and loaded up Chrubuntu. It works remarkably well... except I've nothing (aside from Firefox and LibreOffice) on it to do. Can anybody recommend useful/entertaining Linux apps I can throw on this thing? Nothing that uses heavy 3D graphics, please.
Thanks in advance!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.