My chromebook won’t open Unity this morning. (That’s geekspeak for starting the Linux instance that holds my wordprocessing documents.) I’m trying to recover it but things are slow – and somewhat troubling.
PS: I recovered (and backed up). All is well.
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Whew! Glad the tech story had a happy ending. Your tales of geek woe did make me wonder if you had tried Google Docs offline (it should just copy the doc down to local storage) and whether it would be smart enough to update the offline document to your Google drive for you. You also might think about scheduling a task in Ubuntu to copy the file overnight when you aren’t writing (but perhaps that wouldn’t work if you leave the file open).
I hadn’t known about Offline until yesterday.
The Docs option is still less than optimal because it gets really slow after about 40k words. I was looking at some other apps that might be promising. Not sure I’m ready to abandon Linux yet though 🙂
Anorak on my friend!
I just found out about installing Linux on Chromebook, pure and simple without crouton. However, it will not work with mine which has an ARM processor. Here is the Hardware Compatibility if you are interested. This looks very good and I was very excited to try it until I hit the bad news. https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
Mine’s one of the unsupported ARMs :/