Picked up a Dell Chromebook 11 x86_64 and looking for a simple IDE and/or text editor.

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  • crostini-kde-setup

    Initialize a Chromebook Linux container to run KDE Apps

    The first thing I do after creating the Linux container is install https://github.com/joedefen/crostini-kde-setup which has several KDE tools including Kate (and Kate can be put into vi mode if you wish). Typically, I also bring Debian up to Debian Sid (or "Unstable") to get the latest (and best) KDE tools.

  • Geany

    A fast and lightweight IDE

    In Debian, I like Geany (https://www.geany.org/). On the ChromeOS side, there is a Chrome app called Text that is made by Google and pretty good, although it is not nearly as feature rich as VS code. It’s actually pretty bare bones come to think of it.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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