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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m just evaluating a friend’s Chromebook – and I’m very impressed. It seems to do everything I want, at a fraction of the weight and cost of my old dying laptop … with one exception – Lyx!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This link: <a href="https://www.bestchromebookapps.com/lyx-for-chromebook/">
https://www.bestchromebookapps.com/lyx-for-chromebook/</a> promises Lyx is available as an app. This is presumably just nonsense?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">An offering called Rollapp promises to give me Lyx in the cloud which is fine in principle, but costs money.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Finally this link hints that it <i>should</i> be possible to get Lyx working via the Linux support under Chrome OS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/6lwrhz/lyx_on_samsung_plus_pro_over_crouton/">https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/6lwrhz/lyx_on_samsung_plus_pro_over_crouton/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I might have a go at the last of these, but wanted to reach out first to find out if anyone has already tried this and has any tips (eg it doesn’t work!) ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The most obvious problem is space – the Chromebook has about 12Gb of available storage (less than the RAM on my old laptop!), so some careful disk management may be required.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Many thanks for any help/tips/comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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