Chromebooks as my main daily driver

I want to share my experience with my chromebooks and how i them

First of all i want to mention that this is my private use of IT, so it's when i'm at home from work and hobby coding in either Python or FreePascal for the commandline, so i only use a Linux terminal for my programming, there is no big and advanced programming IDE like visual studion running, it's purely vim and nano i use for my projects as editors.

So to make it as simple as portable as possible i decided to go with a setup where i have 2 chromebooks, one for when i'm at home and another i have with me, just to ensure that i always have an extra machine if one of them goes haywire 😃

What you see on the picture is my extra device, its a Lenovo Chromebook Plus Ideapad Slim 3, with intel i3-305 cpu (8 cores), 8GB DDR5 ram and 128 GB Emmc, i have a activated the Linux Container, i belive thats an developer mode, but where simple, you just activate linux and then it installs a debian linux in a container for my that you can login to with the terminal app.

My programs doesn't take up that much space so i have just set the linux terminal to take up to 20 GB it use 3,3 GB now with nano, vim, some python3 modules installed and freepascal compler, so plenty of room for my development. There is also the option to use an external drive or usb stick

I don't use github, i just share my google drive with my linux container (just rightclick on your google drive and select share with linux) then it will show op in /mnt/chromeos/GoogleDrive/MyDrive i have made a symlink with the command ln -s /mnt/chromeos/GoogleDrive/MyDrive /home/peter/gdrive then i have a "folder" called gdrive that points to the long path that makes it easier for me to use the drive, i just have to do a cd gdrive and then i have access to files that are in sync with my google drive.

My experience with this setup is that i completely forget that i'm using a chromebook, its the perfect terminal and if i want to use a browser, spreadsheet or write something in a wordprocessor then i have it builtin without any additional costs.

If you buy a new chromebook plus then you will get 12 month of free 2 TB google drive space and Gemini Pro AI, thats almost paying for more than 50% of the chromebook if you want to use AI and need some extra space, so it's a insanely great price.

So that's my setup, when i get home from work and just wan't to code or watch youtube then the chromebook is there for me, no virus, no problems at all and it's also linux based, sort of 😎😉 i have a raspberry pi 4 at home as an extra device with linux and for compiling my software for ARM cpu's.