u/BetcoFS

so, im in an online GURPS game, and im going out of town for a couple weeks. so, i bought a cheap chromebook that was next day deliverable on amazon for $60, planning to use it to access foundry vtt and the Gurps Character sheet while away from my home PC. I should've read up on chromeos before i bought it, bc i thought i would be getting just a cheap barebones laptop that had shit specs, but could otherwise at least access the sorts of files and programs that my phone couldn't.

come to find out, chromeos removes basically 90% of the advantage of having a laptop at all instead of just using the discord mobile app... anyone have experience using the linux terminal to open GCS files on chromebook?

so, im in an online ttrpg game (GURPS is the system), and im going out of town for a couple weeks. so, i bought a cheap chromebook that was next day deliverable on amazon for $60, planning to use it to access foundry vtt and the Gurps Character sheet while away from my home PC. I should've read up on chromeos before i bought it, bc i thought i would be getting just a cheap barebones laptop that had shit specs, but could otherwise at least access the sorts of files and programs that my phone couldn't.

come to find out, chromeos removes basically 90% of the advantage of having a laptop at all instead of just using the discord mobile app... I saw that the L1nux terminal can be installed through the settings to run L1nux programs and files (spelling changed bc discord automods are fascists), and this particular program is just a glorified excel spreadsheet that has VTT support, so, outside of the OS incompatibility, the barebones specs should be plenty sufficient for it. not like im doing 3d modeling or video editing or anything. but i cant figure out how it works exactly. any help you guys can offer on using the built in penguin terminal to open L1nux files/programs? or is this reddit post the most useful thing this chromebook will ever do?