[PLUG] Using crosh shell on a Chromebook ( was: Chromebooks and Linux )

[Tomas Kuchta]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 10:32 Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:09 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > * If you have the laptop folded over, in 2-in-1 mode, how can you hold
> >   it up in the air (like you were reading a book sitting in a
> >   recliner), without your fingers pressing on the keys in back?
> >
>
> After a certain angle, the keyboard is inactivated and the laptop acts like
> a touch-screen tablet with an on-screen keyboard.  That said, I never use
> the 2-in-1 in tablet mode.  For me, it's too awkward.  When I'm reading
> a book or article, I prefer my iPad or Kindle ( if outside in daylight ).
> In the future, I'll probably get a tablet Chromebook and a folio case with
> a bluetooth keyboard that is backlit. Something like the Lenovo 10e.
>
> * If you are holding it up in portrait mode, does the display
> >   automatically go portrait as well?
> >
>
> Yes, the display rotates 90, 180, and 270 degrees as you rotate the
> Chromebook, just like a tablet.
> .


I solved the same reading problem with iPad + nextcloud client sync to my
server almost 2 years ago.

I still like that solution today.

Couple of learnings:
1. I tried light netbooks, lightweight laptops, android tablet before
setling on iPad.
2. Android tablet was fin-ish, but the lack of updates made it useless in
about 2 years + I did not like the wide screen format for reading.
3. Laptops/netbooks/Chromebooks end up clumsy and pretty heavy after a few
minutes + battery life + page flipping/zooming and other touch related
issues + it is distracting from reading because it can be used for other
computing stuff + the wide screen curse.
4. I find iPad pretty useless for anything but reading. I totally hate its
closed garden aproach to data, privacy, total lock-in .... For reading it
works great, sreen format is excellent, and it gets updates for a long
time. Using NextCloud is not a problem for me - without it, it would not
work.

Bast, Tomas

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