oops - remotedesktop.google.com/access is the correct url - mistyped

@Dashrender said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@scottalanmiller said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@Obsolesce said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

I don't use the desktop for shortcuts even on Windows. I don't see why it's needed. It's just a clutter space, it's so much easier to have the shortcuts on the task bar, or start menu... Windows Key + Search works great on Windows and Linux GUI

I honestly like using it as a scratch space for temp files. That said... ChromeOS doesn't have temp files in that way, so even my purpose for it goes away.

yeah, that's true. Since editing a doc is in a webspace - you don't have the choice to really save the file/data to the desktop as a scratch pad... so you just have to save it into the cloud - it forces better behavior.

Right, exactly.

@JasGot said in ChromeBook Tablet with LTE?:

So I started looking for information on an Android tablet could be re-initialized with the Chrome OS at a later date. Not much on that topic out there...

Different hardware, unlikely to be happy trying to do that.

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

You can rename the files obviously, but you can't import them if you change the name it seems.

actually...maybe I cant import because it's already listed.

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Copy it and change the name, then reload Remmina. You'll now see a copy of the same thing. Go back and delete the original in the file system and reload Remmina again. Original disappears.

Tells me that one should be able to simply dump the connection configs on the minions, tighten down the permission to read only for the user and let them operate.

@Reid-Cooper said in CrossOver: Run Windows Programs on ChromeOS:

There is a Wine for Android option perhaps. And if your ChromeOS runs Linux apps, Wine might work that way.

Agreed - and I did see that. However, I again run into the issue of the USBtoSerial not working... at least it seems to not work. Might look again over the weekend... oh wait.. I really don't have a weekend between sports events and other crap...

@doug said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS:

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS:

Google Management Console

Are you referring to https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop
?

No, that's just a desktop remoting system. We're talking about a management platform. More like MDM. Not remote assistance.

@scottalanmiller
Just found this thread. I love AquaMail. Been using it for years. It's worthy of mention!

I got an old junker laptop I was going to play with CloudReady on:
https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

But I'm thinking instead I'll come to the dark side and try Fedora 27 on it

@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:

@penguinwrangler said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:

We need a post that lays out all the reasons why Lenovo is bad. Then we can just link to it. It comes up all the time it seems like.

There is a link to Travis' blog post but his site was down.

https://travisdh1.net/lenovo

Yeah, I got caught in the fun domain renewal and switch dance, gr.

@dashrender said in CrossOver Wine Now on Chrome OS:

@scottalanmiller said in CrossOver Wine Now on Chrome OS:

Also, the article says that only 32bit Windows apps will run on Windows ARM, not real Windows apps.

What's a real Windows app? Most people I know running local Office still run the 32 bit version.

One that doesn't require emulation to run. Windows is 64 bit. It's a 64 OS. Apps for that OS.

@irj said in Google Introduces Chrome Enterprise:

I shared this with my team. I think this may be a Windows killer, but everyone else is skeptical. What do you guys think?

The Windows killer is "customers with a clue" and "the capability to move to modern software". Put those together, nearly everyone can drop Windows. Not everyone, but most everyone.

@Tim_G said in SAM's Chromebook Adventure 2017:

I'm thinking of getting a Chromebook just so I can have non-mobile (desktop mode) web access in places I do not want to have a normal sized laptop. Is 11.6" too big for that purpose?

Phone is just too small and so inconvenient for some things I want to do. I'd rather have a super small laptop just for web access and simple things.

11.6" is not very big. It's only slightly different than carrying around an iPad, but for me, way more usable.

Just as a funny side note, the article mentions running rm -r / on a linux system. That wouldn't do anything on a lot of Linux systems unless you add the -f flag.

Unless you put stuff there on purpose of course.

Even Google admits, they don't make enough, or market these for the general public. Something like 80% of the ones they build stay internal to Google. That all being said, I would LOVE to have one. They are not trying to compete with Apple laptops, so you can't really compare them.