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Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam (codeweavers.com)
"With Google Play and Android app support hitting Chromebooks, it's now possible to run Windows applications/games on Chromebooks via CrossOver For Android," reports Phoronix. Slashdot reader grungy writes: The first Intel ChromeBooks have access to the Play Store now, and the Android version of Wine apparently runs on them... Pictures show the Steam client running, and a clip of a D3D game. Of course, the Play Store is only available on the ChromeOS developer channel so far, but that should change later this year.
CrossOver for Android also hasn't been officially released, but Thursday CodeWeavers' president blogged excitedly that "we are staring at a Leprechaun riding on the back of a Unicorn while taking a picture of a UFO. We are running CrossOver through Android on a ChromeBook running a Windows based game launched from the Steam client. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE...EVER!!!"
CrossOver for Android also hasn't been officially released, but Thursday CodeWeavers' president blogged excitedly that "we are staring at a Leprechaun riding on the back of a Unicorn while taking a picture of a UFO. We are running CrossOver through Android on a ChromeBook running a Windows based game launched from the Steam client. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE...EVER!!!"
It can barely run any games or applications, except those used in screenshots..
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!
but but but... Chromebooks are now cheap GAMING RIGS that can do EVERYTHING! Right?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I had Steam (both wine version and Linux version) working on my Asus C710 Chromebook a couple of years ago. The system itself lacked enough power to do any big gaming, but FTL worked well enough.
Last year I played quite a bit of Skyrim, streaming it from a Windows desktop elsewhere in the house.
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Most people have been using Chromebooks wrong. When you go out and buy a $500 laptop or tablet, you don't really expect it to run games or applications that require intensive graphics processing or physics computing. But for some reason, when it comes to $200 Chromebooks, people expect them to do everything a $3k gaming rig can do. I mean, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and it's been like this since their launch.
I'm happy with my slightly customized $200 Chromebook that has a good keyboard and touchpad, 6.5h battery life and it's very light and durable. I'm using it right.
-SR
People don't expect that from a tablet because the tablet form-factor has never been primarily comprised of machines that could do those things. Laptops not being able to do those things is a relatively new phenomenon and isn't widely accepted by a populace used to technology becoming more capable over time. To most people, it's just another laptop and everybody knows laptops can do everything desktops can do, just sometimes not as fast.
In other words, people don't always understand the finer points of fields in which they're not educated. Most people aren't educated enough in the field of computing to know the difference between x86 and ARM, or Windows, OSX, Linux, and Chrome OS. Hell, I've met people who think iOS and Android are the same OS and don't understand why apps bought on their iPhone don't appear in their Play store purchases; after all, they used the same email address for both.
When that's who you're selling to, you can expect any and all limitations of your platform to be viewed as flaws, mistakes you made, that you must fix in order for your platform to not be complete crap in the eyes of the consumer.
I'm not saying it is right, just that it is.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
The first thing I did when I got a Chromebook (that I had never asked for) was to install Linux (specifically, GalliumOS). Not surprisingly, Wine runs just fine on top of that, along with the older Windows games that I still play. Minecraft also ran surprisingly well on it, between 20 and 35 fps fullscreen (1366x768), though of course Wine is not required for this. I even used it as my Minecraft server for a while (and might again) because it is silent. I did not attempt to run the server and the client simultaneously. That would be asking a bit much.
Unfortunately, Bay Trail has some serious shortcomings that have made me realize this machine will never be what I actually need out of a daily driver laptop, and the eMMC (and lack of M.2 or SATA) doesn't help. That's why I've posted it for sale, the intent being to buy a C720P with 4GB of RAM and an M.2 slot instead. I already know that can easily be converted into a triple-booting Ubuntu/OS X/Windows machine that performs reasonably well, because I know the guy in charge of the C720P Hackintosh project. :)
If running Wine on a Chromebook is Invisible Pink Unicorn territory, I've got a whole herd of them grazing on carpet in my living room. (What, you didn't know Invisible Pink Unicorns are all rug munchers?)
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
It should be fast enough for indie platformer games with 8-bit style sprite graphics, not to mention all the Japanese visual novels that are being translated and brought to Steam via Sekai Project.
It's more than enough for Tetris, Zork, tuxracer, Soitaire,, many modest chess programs, and many other graphically lightweight games. It's even enough CPU for the original Doom and Quake games, which are still good fun. And it's more than enough power and graphics for a "point-of-sale" system on lightweight, obsolete, and therefore inexpensive low end hardware. The machines even have decent enough screen size and battery life for a field console for use in a data center visit, or for handing one off to some kids to play with while traveling.