Recently developers have started exploring for reasonable alternatives to Macbooks. Chromebooks are one option to get a bash prompt. We'll provide doc and tips to Crouton your Chromebook to run Ubuntu. We'll summarize and compare the different options in recent Windows 10 with Ubuntu and ephemeral bash in Google cloud with the freedoms and limitations with respect to Chromebook - Give me a bash$.
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