Guy in a room full of treasure with thinkpad laptops "I think I've found heaven"
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Hi, it's me. I'm one of those people. Currently test driving OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in KDE Plasma on an old Chromebook. Liking Linux well enough so far, and i have no special fondness for windows. Just need to find/learn Linux alternatives or work arounds for a few key things, like Cricut and SketchUp. Then I feel like I could easily switch over my main machine and never look back.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I can speak from experience on the Cricut: you'll still need Design Space to actually do the cutting, but you can use Inkscape to make your designs, just export them to .svg files and load those into Design Space on an old tablet or something. There's currently no alternative to Design Space for the actual cutting, due to Cricut's proprietary nature.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could you run it in a VM or Wine?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Didn't try a VM, but it definitely does not work on WINE.

    Edit: just did a quick search, it does work with a VM. I also thought about something like Waydroid to run the Android app, or maybe a port kind of like Sober does for Roblox, but I have tried neither and I'm going to sleep soon, so hopefully I'll remember about it later lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks for the heads-up. I don't use the Cricut all the time so an old tablet will probably do fine but I'll also look into how to spin up VMs for things like this. Although I doubt my chrultrabook will be able to run windows due to its anemic specs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Chromebook can run Android apps with the stock OS, so you're probably good there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Unfortunately it no longer has the chrome OS and is running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead but I was able to get a design cut using my phone today. My old tablet refused to connect to the cutter, I think it might be too old.

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