Originally Posted by
TheFu
ChromeOS isn't a general purpose Linux. It is extremely specialized for what Google things people who want to watch youtube and use google's webapps need.
IF the model can run Android, recent chromebooks have a Java-like JRE, there for Android apps, but it isn't really 100% java. It is the Android version which is different enough that Oracle wasn't able to convince a judge it was the same and stolen by google. There are very important differences, lets just say that.
Further, Java is a hog, so 95% of chromebooks can't run it except limping, slowly, due to restricted memory. I'm guessing that you didn't buy one of the $800 chromebooks.
So, if you want to run Java and do java development for school, you'll need a better computer or learn to use a $10/month VPS, since the cheap ones are extremely tight on RAM and java is a hog. If you are a commercial java developer, creating desktop or server applications, you'll want a Core i7 with 64G of RAM and fast NVMe SSDs.
Did I mention that Java is a hog?
OTOH, I did server-side webapp software development with a DBMS on a 2011 dual core Celeron with 2G, after replacing ChromeOS (it was too frustrating) for Lubuntu using the Perl programming language. Chromebooks are very capable, but we have to be smart about the workloads.
You won't be doing normal java development on a chromebook. Sorry. Take the chromebook back or list the hardware specifics, but if you don't already know Linux pretty well, I think you'd be better getting a used $300 workstation to limp along until you can get a better java development workstation.
If you just want to run 1 java application, there are probably some options. I've assumed you want to develop using Java, since I can't imagine why anyone would actually want to run a bloated java application. Yep - can't imagine that. Just tried again. Nope. Don't see it.
And lastly, ChromeOS isn't Ubuntu, so this thread belongs in a non-Supported OS thread, not Ubuntu Official Flavours.
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