i tried programming on the CHEAPEST laptop

I wanted to see what the developer experience would be like on a really cheap laptop - is it even possible?

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[ritchielrez]

The paste command in a Linux terminal usually is Ctrl+Shift+V. Probably because Ctrl+V isn't map to anything in the terminal, it sends ^V to the shell.

[carlcodes]

Love the honesty of this video - you've done a huge amount to help us all feel at home

[glyakk]

8:21 I feel this so much... I am also reinventing the wheel because I am always forgetting how I got something to finally work.

[VernonWhite]

I bought a new Windows education laptop at Microcenter a few months ago ($99 list on sale for $79). 11" Evolve 3 laptop, Celeron N3450 with HD 500 graphics, 4 MiB Ram, 64 GiB ECC HDD with a 1366 x 768 60 Hz display. I had to add an $12 Wi-Fi dongle as the internal cellular modem/Wi-Fi was windows only (not even the GitHub code "fix' from manufacturer worked). It easily loaded multiple versions of Linux. I ended up with Pop-OS! adding Python 3 and Visual Studio Code. The laptop works, I can code simple stuff, and work thought Linux admin basics. Converting this Windows machine was much easier converting to a Linux dev environment than getting my 15" HP Chromebook running Linux. I understand the frustration with "Can I get Linux running on this Chromebook."

My conclusion was would I want to code on it as a real developer... probably not. Do I care if I completely brick it while I'm learning Linux administration, dealing with questionable GitHub repos, or learning some basics of security issues... Nope, don't care. So a cheap laptop has it's uses where I would not do any of this on my main machines.

Great video for what we can do with cheaper stuff. Thanks!!

[bryans]

This reminds me of when I got my first Raspberry Pi and started to learn to use Debian commands in the terminal. It was a vertical learning curve for me too.

[soulfabuk]

Alex, I'm laughing my ass off at the sound effects when you're trying to paste. Developer comedy right here 😂

[jsebrech]

Very entertaining, and very recognizable to anyone that struggled before with getting linux to work on unfamiliar hardware.

Incidentally, on january 2, 1991 a young Helsinki student named Linus Torvalds went shopping for the most badass computer he could afford. He spent FIM 18, 000 -- about $3, 500 -- on a gray brick that came with a 33 megahertz processor and 4 megabytes of RAM. He used that computer to create and release linux to the world. This chromebook has a quad core 1.83 ghz cpu (as compared to single core 0.03 ghz in the 386), and it has 4 GB RAM (as compared to 4 MB RAM), so this "weak" computer is literally a thousand times more powerful than the first computer that ran linux. If it can't run linux well, that is more a criticism of today's software than it is of its computing prowess.

[ZacLangston]

I was falling all over my desk at 5:50 ow that was so funny!!!!

[yc]

pasting is using shift with the ctrl button
so ctrl+shift+v

[markmahowald]

I have been trying to pick a new laptop for development. This is actually really comforting to me because it means I can go pretty cheap

[TechdubberStudios]

1. you can select text and then drag the selection in the terminal (works like copy-paste, but only with mouse) with windows side-by-side.

2. Try Control + Shift + V if Control + V does not work.

3. Right click on the terminal and choose "paste".

There you go. 3 methods to paste things.

[darshandani]

The sound effects when you could not figure out copy-paste were hilarious !!

[sfhdoan]

You can install VS Code, Docker, Python on chromebook. These are nifty laptops for middleschoolers. Some of those $300 chhromebooks like the Acer Spin are pretty dope with HighDPU 3:2 ratio screens

[luisminayagarcia]

Awesome, that was what I needed to know about a chromebook for programming, thanks! PS: Greetings from Perú

[thewiirocks]

Best way to get VS Code up and running quickly is by installing code-server. It will allow you to run VS Code in a web browser. Super easy and quick to setup.

For the ultimate flex, setup your dev environment on a Raspberry PI (which won’t have all these crazy setup problems) and access it on your ChromeBook on the go. Developer mode not required! 😉

[BillyBraga]

adding "sudo" in front of "curl xxx | bash -" won't change a thing if the error is in running the script after downloading it... You'd want to add the sudo just before "bash" (Not that you should install node as root)

[albyx]

great video! I have a couple of Windows and Mac machines but always been curious to mess around with a Chromebook. I've got a cheap one but the most I've done with it is install some flavor of Linux, not much. More videos like this certainly spice up the channel. Thanks again, Alex!

[onilbautista]

this reminds me every time I have to set up local environments for a new company.

[alexeiz]

"You can't program if you can't copy and paste" - that goes into my list of favorite quotes.

[robchr]

Ctrl is actually used on the terminal to do special commands. It's easy to get hung up on this if your GUI also uses Ctrl for actions. Terminal was around before cut and paste. In terminal you can use use Ctrl-U/Ctrl-Y but it's a completely different copy/paste buffer.