Kicad For Chrome Os

Software
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Will kiCad receive one release for chromebooks, or kicad web.

Thanks

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In short, no.

KiCad is a traditional desktop application. Some parts of it could be reused to create a web app. The user interface is built on wxWidgets which probably will never support Chrome OS.

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Chrome os is at least linux based. So maybe if you can get X11 to run on it with a traditional window manager then you will be able to run kicad and other desktop apps.)
Or maybe it is easier to install a full linux system on it. First google result for that seems to suggest you do not even need to kill chrome os in the process: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-add-linux-to-your-chromebook/

Any further help with that topic would be better on a forum dedicated to linux.

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Installing full Linux versions on Chromebook hardware is a hobby of some people. A few years back the hardware of (most?) Chromebooks tended to be pretty slow though and that alone might make it uncomfortable to use KiCad on it for “reasonable sized” projects.
But, as Rene wrote, that’s a Linux topic, not KiCad.

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I guess you can install KiCad using Crostini
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Crostini

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