On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 22:53, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Just curious... Where/how do you use these little computers? I mean, $300 here, $200 there, $100 upgrade, $50 ram, $25 microSD, etc. they all add up.
I have been carrying around a Chromebook running Linux-y bits via Crouton for 3.5+ years now; it's coming towards the end of its lifespan, and only cost me a bit past $200, with no extras adding up. Quoting my own email from 2015-03-15 on this list... "I'm liking my Samsung ARM-based Chromebook well enough; I'm running Debian "in behind" via the Crouton layer, which has been working fine. I'll bet that by the time I care for something more, there will be a newer model with more storage, memory, and CPU than I presently have." It's 2018, and the reason I'm looking for something newer mostly has to do with the fact that such a cheap laptop has a fairly fragile case, so it's beginning to age a bit ungracefully. That something newer has greater capacity is fine. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"