I’ve been using a C720 Chromebook for a while now and instead of complaining about limitations I tried to keep an open mind for this new “type” of computer (actually only a simpler OS). When talking about limitations I mean that all you have (with some exception) is your browser.
So I made a small list (probably getting bigger in next months)
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Text a helpful and honest text editor with syntax highlight and other really good features. I miss atom on my Ubuntu machine but It is better than other editors I tried.
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Bitford To get some stuff from torrent I use this app. It still seems like unfinished (or beta?) but surprisingly comes with an embedded Player (someone said PopcornTime?). I prefer to use Chrome OS player because fullscreen was not working on Bitford. Still in time: I needed to use http://magnet2torrent.me/ because I only found Better Call Saul magnet links ;) I don’t know if it is the best for this service but solved my problem.
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Coding One problem that advanced users would face is how to coding in a Chromebook. You can use many services online to solve this problem, and all of them are really good. but I prefer to have my own environment. I knew that Cloud9 is open source, but the version that they had on GitHub was old. Hopefully, they put a new version available that I could use. Actually I made this tutorial on how to install Cloud9 on your server. So from your Chromebook (actually from any computer) you can program like on a Ubuntu machine.
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Dropbox After a while thinking to migrate to Google drive or make some IFTTT synchronization or try extensions and a lot of bad stuff I found out that apps would be able to use the Chomebook’s file system. Sometime after that I found out this, they made this extension to access your Dropbox from you Chromebook \o/
I tried to focus on native apps, but you have all online app to use, it is a browser focused OS =)
That’s All.