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Add installer for chrome OS / chromebook #413

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bhajneet opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Add installer for chrome OS / chromebook #413

bhajneet opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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bhajneet commented Feb 9, 2020

Have had a few requests for this

Might also have to look into ARM support, since I think some Chromebooks might use those processors.
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bhajneet commented Feb 9, 2020

It seems many Chromebooks now support Linux apps installation via ".deb" files. Which would also support debian/ubuntu based Linux distros (quite popular).

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bhajneet commented Feb 9, 2020

Otherwise there is a method involving crouton

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bhajneet commented Feb 9, 2020

https://code.headmelted.com/

See here for an example of installing vs code on arm/chromebook

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saihaj commented Apr 3, 2020 •
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I think we can compile it for linux

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-distribution#application-distribution

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