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Linux iterm profiles alternative10/30/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() With the Debian install, you don’t get an actual Linux desktop, like you would with say a Virtual Box VM. LINUX ITERM PROFILES ALTERNATIVE INSTALLThis means that, currently (Chrome OS 70), once you’ve gotten it installed, you’ll get a Debian container and a terminal ready to go! Poking around the subreddit above it appears that you can install other containers, but Debian works well for me. This is the key to being a happy web developer (or probably most any developer) on Chrome OS.Ĭrostini, also known as Linux on Chrome OS, will actually let you run a Linux container (or maybe virtual machine? Not entirely sure ) on your Chromebook. I thought I was stuck, knowing that I’m most comfortable developing when I’m zooming around in zsh, but then a coworker helped me get Crostini set up. Now, being most comfortable developing on a Mac, I immediately reached for the Terminal which… wasn’t there. So, like the introduction says, I just joined Google! My first order of business, clearly, was getting my new Pixelbook set up to do some webdev on it. Disclaimer: I now work for Google, and while this post is about me setting up my work Google Pixelbook, these are my personal thoughts and not Google’s. ![]()
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