{"id":7719,"date":"2015-11-19T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2015-11-19T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:04:06","slug":"linux-programs-in-a-chromebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/linux-programs-in-a-chromebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Programs in a Chromebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgKtQ_gAxIg?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve visited this blog or my YouTube channel before, you know that I&#8217;m a big advocate of Linux. \u00a0I use Linux on all my desktop and notebook computers. \u00a0I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP Photo Editing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribus.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scribus Desktop Publishing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice Suite<\/a> and others to create my comic strips, panels, blog posts, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been very intrigued with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chromebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chromebook<\/a>. \u00a0I like the idea of cloud computing and always having your data and files close by. \u00a0It&#8217;s a neat concept. Even if you lose your Chromebook (or other device), you still have access to your files. \u00a0But, unfortunately, not having access to Linux programs on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chromebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chromebook<\/a> has always been a deal-breaker. \u00a0Until now. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollApp.com\" target=\"_blank\">rollApp.com<\/a> allows you to run all these terrific Linux Open source Programs in the cloud in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chromebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chromebook<\/a>. In fact, you can run all available programs, on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollApp.com\" target=\"_blank\">rollApp.com<\/a>, on a Chromebook and across all platforms (Mac,Windows, Linux, Smart Phone,tablet, iPad, etc.) \u00a0It really is a brilliant idea.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a subscription involved. \u00a0It&#8217;s free to open\u00a0and view files in all programs on all your devices. \u00a0But, if you wish to SAVE a file, then there&#8217;s a nominal fee involved. It works out to about $72.0 per year. \u00a0(rollApp gives you a 14 day\u00a0trial period to save files and give things a good test drive). \u00a0Is a subscription service right for you? \u00a0Well, it all hinges on your own situation and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, Netflix is $8.99 per month. \u00a0That&#8217;s an annual fee of $107.88. \u00a0The average ticket price to attend a movie is around nine dollars. \u00a0Add in another ten bucks for concessions and a visit to the movies costs almost 20 bucks. \u00a0(Double that if you&#8217;re taking a date.) \u00a0If you attend four times a year, that&#8217;s 80 dollars for one person.<\/p>\n<p>So now, $72.00 a year for rollApp, which allows you to do something productive, doesn&#8217;t seem too much to spend.<\/p>\n<p>As I mention in the above video, you&#8217;re either going to spend time or money. \u00a0You could spend the time to learn Linux, get an older used computer box, download the program, install it, and learn the ropes. \u00a0I&#8217;ve done this as have many, many others. \u00a0And it&#8217;s a GREAT learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>But, if all you have is a Chromebook, and you need additional tools, and don&#8217;t have the time to learn a new Operating system, etc&#8230;then rollApp\u00a0is the perfect solution. \u00a0It costs less than online streaming services and allows you to be productive. \u00a0In addition, rollApp gives you a great look at what&#8217;s available in the Linux world, all in one place. \u00a0(In Windows\/Mac, you have to hunt down all these programs yourself.)<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re a Chromebook user and are looking for a set of powerful computing programs that&#8217;ll make you\u00a0more productive and creative, get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollApp.com\" target=\"_blank\">rollApp.com<\/a> account and give your Chromebook some new tools. \u00a0And who knows? \u00a0It may serve as an introduction to Linux. \u00a0So much so, that you&#8217;ll actually download, install, and use Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve visited this blog or my YouTube channel before, you know that I&#8217;m a big advocate of Linux. \u00a0I use Linux on all my desktop and notebook computers. \u00a0I use GIMP Photo Editing, Scribus Desktop Publishing, LibreOffice Suite and others to create my comic strips, panels, blog posts, etc. Lately, I&#8217;ve been very intrigued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,1316,1315,35,7,62,9,10,1317],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-chromebook","tag-chromeos","tag-computer","tag-george","tag-internet","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-rollapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}