Nah. I already did that once and the mrchromebox.tech site even says not to buy a chromebook for Linux. It’s honestly not that great of an experience

Kinda outside my price range. And there’s probably no used devices yet.

I think vim (and other text editors with vim bindings). I’ve gotten so accustomed to the vim way of doing things that I can’t go back

My mother uses some software that runs in the browser for her shop. It can print out receipts and scan items. To do these things it has a small “sattelite” application that runs on the system and interacts with the printer and scanner. This software only runs on Windows and Linux doesn’t have drivers for the scanner.

When I switched her over to Linux and found this out in the process I wanted to stop, give up and install windows.

But then I had a stupid idea. I could run the sattelite program in a Windows VM and pass through the USB devices for receipt printer and scanner. The webapp uses requests to localhost:9998 to communicate with the sattelite so I set up a apache server that proxies these requests into the VM. I also prevented the VM from acessing the Interner so Windows doesn’t update and screw everything up.

And it works. It has been in use for a week now and I’ve heard no complaints. I’m just praying to god it doesn’t break

Nostr

That’s the clutch and the brake tho