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yet do everything on a phone, but you can do some things.</li>
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<li>The <i>expo laptop</i> uses <a href="https://www.debian.org/intro/about">Debian</a> with the <a
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href="https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-cinnamon-desktop-environment-on-debian/">Cinnamon</a> interface, but pretty much any Linux
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment)">Cinnamon</a> interface, but pretty much any Linux
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system works fine. Old, slow machines without much memory can be very effective with <a href="https://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu/xfce</a>.
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<li>If using a Mac or Red-Hat-based linux you'll need to work it all out for yourself.</li>
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<li>Chromebooks, since 2019, allow you to enable the underlying debian system in a container
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using a tool called <a href="https://chromeos.dev/en/linux">Crostini</a>. This should work just fine, but no one has tried it yet.
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It should be even better than <a href="../troggle/troglaptop.html#os">WSL on Windows</a> as you can run GUI applications on Debian. Or you could install a full Ubuntu system with chroot using
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<a href="https://uk.pcmag.com/linux/135719/how-to-install-linux-on-your-chromebook">Crouton</a>.
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<li>Chromebooks work just like a phone, but with a keyboard, so far as Expo is concerned (mostly). See our <a href="chromebook.html">chromebooks</a> page.
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<li>Windows machines can do almost everything needed directly in Windows itself, but some useful software has no Windows version and you will
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need to find your own equivalents. There are also some 'gotchas' to look out for due to filesystem differences (e.g letter case). If you have
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