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║ Plans to Make a Digital Notebook ║ 2026 01 30 ║ Life, Tech ║ ║ <<< ║
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║ I honestly don't completely know why I implemented the "tags" system with these pages. They don't seem very useful but at the ║
║ time it seemed a lot of other sites were doing it so I should as well. ║
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║ Anyway, I saw this post of turning an old netbook into a machine that just runs headless debian, and I thought that would be ║
║ cool to try. Something about having a machine that can run as a text editor and (in my case, which I'll get to in a moment) ║
║ code compiler and web browser just appeals to me. Maybe it's something to do with minimalism. Anyway I really like the idea. ║
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║ When I graduate at the very start of summer, I'll (very very likely) be given my school-issued computer. It's a Dell ║
║ Chromebook 3100. Chromebooks are not designed out-of-the-box to allow for different operating systems to be booted, but more ║
║ recently I was able to put Peppermint OS on my Acer Chromebook 14 just fine, following the mrchromebox and chrultrabook docs. ║
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║ Some people would think I'm absolutely stupid for wanting to run an already relatively small linux distro on a computer with ║
║ 32 GB of storage and lack of a history of any major technical issues. So yeah, that's probably true, it would be way more ║
║ practical to just run a lightweight DE along with it. But I'm obsessed with the idea of having a small computer that can ║
║ function as a simple notebook, etc. ║
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║ My plan so far: ║
║ - Run debian on a virtual machine to see what it's like using only a terminal as a computer. ║
║ - Graduate (I own the computer now) ║
║ - Put the applicable debian ISO onto a usb stick. ║
║ - Install the coreboot UEFI thing onto my chromebook and install debian. ║
║ - Victory I think. ║
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║ Unlike the case of putting debian on an Eee PC, putting it on a Chromebook (a pretty good one at that) means it can do more ║
║ than edit text files. I think it should be able to run whatever code I happen to type onto it very well. ║
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║ Would I be able to to all that *with* a desktop environment? Yeah definitely. But I already made a "chrultrabook" out of a ║
║ chromebook already, and I'd really like to try this. Maybe it'll also help with my command-line skills. ║
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