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Notebook to learn Elixir/Phoenix?

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Nefcairon

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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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Ted

Ted

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.

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John-Goff

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.

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AstonJ

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).

You might also find this poll interesting:

:003:

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david_ex

david_ex

Thinkpads can usually be obtained used for cheap (e.g. when companies renew their fleet and sell the old ones) and typically have excellent Linux support. If that’s something you’d consider doing, take a look at https://www.truefla.me/free-stuff/used-thinkpad-buyers-guide (although note that price in EU tend to be higher than the US ones in the guide).

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Nefcairon

Nefcairon

2 years later I finally have decided to buy a chromebook (Acer CP713-3w).

Has anyone experience with Erlang/Elixir (+Rust for the Nx.Explorer package) on Crostini? Is it any different from developing on a Ubuntu machine?

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