Life with a Chromebook (arm64)

chomebook.md

Life with a Chromebook (arm64)¹

1. Setup native Wireguard VPNs²

2. Harden your Chromebook³

3. Install uBlock Origin Lite

4. Setup Linux on your Chromebook

5. Install:

   • Basics: sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates software-properties-common apt-utils pkg-config

   • GnuPG: sudo apt-get install -y gnupg scdaemon pinentry-gnome3

   • OpenPGP smart card:

     • SSH native ChromeOS Support
     • Linux Terminal⁴

   • KeepassXC: sudo apt-get install -y keepassxc

   • VSCode

   • Docker⁵

   • Rust with rustup: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

   • Node with nvm:

     wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
     source .bashrc
     nvm install node

   • Python: sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-dev python3-venv build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev

   • Julia with juliaup: curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

   • helix⁶

   • lazygit

   • Signal

6. Change Search Button to Escape in Settings > Keyboard

Footnotes

1. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14" 4GB 64GB ↩

2. if the link is broken use the saved archive.org snapshot ↩

3. if the link is broken use the saved archive.org snapshot ↩

4. if the link is broken use the saved archive.org snapshot ↩

5. don't forget to run sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock ↩

6. move the runtime/ directory to $HOME/.config/helix/runtime/, that's the default. ↩