But you can also install Android studio for creating Android Apps and Visual Studio for general purpose coding. My favorite is Sublime Text which is a lightweight text editor which supports numerous programming languages.

The Linux environment enables you to install development tools such as An integrated development environment (IDE) that professional software developers use to write code. You can also install Linux on your Chromebook if you wish to do some software development. The default container that installs on your Chromebook when you enable Linux is called Penguin which is based on Debian. Most of these Linux containers are based on existing popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Debian. Linux containers create isolated self-contained environments for installing full desktop applications on top of an existing operating system. You can think of Linux containers exactly as standardized shipping containers that carry cargo on ships.

So to compromise, Google introduced Linux on Chromebooks through Linux Containers. However, it’s heavily tweaked by Google that you can’t access the full Linux raw power that you do when you install a full Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Linux Mint on a PC. Chromebooks run on Chrome OS which itself is based on the Linux kernel.

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