Turning a Chromebook into a full-fledged computer is a breeze with Linux Development Environment (LDE). But, since you’ll be installing apps from the command line, we’ll also show you how to install some of the most popular Linux apps on your Chromebook.
When Google added Linux Development Environment (LDE) to ChromeOS it opened the door to installing a huge catalog of open source software to its platform. So in this video we take a look at how you enable LDE on a Google Chromebook and take a tour of…
By default when using Linux Development Environment, any Linux applications we wish to install, will need to be installed by typing commands into a terminal window. As you may not be familiar with this method for installing software, to make the…
While we can’t natively run LibreOffice from within ChromeOS, we can run LibreOffice on a Chromebook using Linux Development Environment. So in this video we demonstrate how from the Linux command prompt, we installed LibreOffice onto our…
While Linux Development Environment (LDE) gives the appearance that Linux applications are running natively in ChromeOS. As we are really using a Virtual Machine of Linux, Linux and ChromeOS will by default be isolated from each other. So in this…
While ChromeOS is based on Linux, we are not able to install and run Linux applications from within ChromeOS. So to get around this, we can use something called Linux Development Environment (LDE) which is a virtual machine built into ChromeOS. As…
If you find that you are not using Linux Development Environment as much as you thought. You may want to uninstall LDE to free up space on your computer. So in this video we are going to demonstrate how you uninstall Linux Development Environment…
While we can’t run Firefox directly from ChromeOS, we can still use it on a Chromebook using the Linux Development Environment (LDE). So in this video, we’ll show you how to install Firefox on your Chromebook using the Linux command prompt…
If you want to access a third party email account or perhaps use a more powerful email client than Gmail. By using Mozilla Thunderbird running from within Linux Development Environment (LDE). We can run Thunderbird on a Chromebook. …
As the Torrent clients for ChromeOS are often not that good. It can be problematic sharing files from on a Google Chromebook. So in this video we take a look at how you can use Linux Development Environment (LDE) to installing qBittorrent…
