Well I’m not sure what did it (I suspect installing a GNOME application which fixed some XWindows configuration) but I got Opera working, as well as some other graphical based software that wasn’t working properly. I’m not sure what I did but I did keep trying fixing things until I got somewhere. These helped: sudo […]
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Firefox to the rescue!
While Chrome is a reasonably good browser (and it’s in the name of the ChromeBook so we can expect it to be pretty well integrated), and the version on the ChromeBook seems well enough suited to the laptop I’ve bought, being free of Google and on a full featured Linux browser seemed one of the […]
…and so it begins! ChromeBooks to the rescue?
After many years growing more and more frustrated with the declining quality of laptops available on the market (Mac or PC), with the new local VM and container based and Cloud computing possibilities the solution seemed simple: a stable, stripped down OS running locally, and all other resources run via Vagrant or Dockers or on […]