Nefcairon
Notebook to learn Elixir/Phoenix?
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I am looking for recommendations for the following situation:
I already have a notebook (windows), but it’s more a replacement for a personal computer. When the weather is warm enough, I rather want to sit in the garden learning Elixir and Phoenix. But my notebook is cumbersome to carry it outside and I think it would be better to use linux for development.
Can you recommend a laptop that run linux for my purpose? The cheaper, the better. (I am not sure if I could code in Elixir on a Chromebook).
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In addition to what @cnck1387 wrote…
… the Elixir wiki has a page dedicated to Windows, in which a lot of details about installing WSL can be found.
John-Goff
I’ve installed elixir and Phoenix on my chromebook, but I haven’t done a ton of development work with it. Just enough to know that it works. Does take a little getting used to to understand where your Linux machine ends and the chromebook begins. Getting my editor set up properly (I use emacs) was probably the hardest part.
AstonJ
I still love my 11" MacBook Air - it’s tiny and highly portable, and I use it as my main computer (just plug it into a monitor with bluetooth keyboard and trackpad when at my desk).
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