
A couple of months ago I’ve written about my experiences setting up a development environment in the Google Pixelbook. Back then the Linux (beta) feature was only available in the development channel, but nowadays this feature has been released on the stable channel as well.
While I did manage to write some decent amount of code on the Pixel, some system update killed my VS Code installation. I was able to launch the application, but the window just didn’t render… looking at the logs the application seemed to be working though, but in a “headless” state.
I don’t have the skills to debug it further, so I almost gave up. But since the feature I’ve needed was released in the stable branch I decided to power wash the device and start over again, this time on the stable channel.
Just as a side note: before resorting to that I’ve also tried to run the Pixelbook in developer mode, but I didn’t like the user experience at all. Every time I started XFCE it messed completely my resolution and colors on the Chrome OS, making switching between both worlds impracticable. If you have different experiences regarding that please let me know.
After the power wash I’ve setup the VS Code and Go binaries again. I won’t repeat the steps here, but you can refer to my previous article or the official website for the step by step:
This time I went a little further and installed Docker as well. Here I document my experiences.
