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recently I bought a Chromebook, I love it so much, it has Linux container enabled and I downloaded Firefox, GIMP, and Krita, but my Chromebook is only 64GB, so that can be a lot!!! So what web apps or low storage alternatives can I use?? I know Photopea, but what about drawing? Thank you!!

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

64GB is very, very low for even a phone these days. Usually web apps are even more heavy than regular ones.

Get more storage, a proper computing device or rent a VPS to connect via remote desktop.

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Have you tried photopea.com ? I dunno if it's light enough for you, but it's basically Photoshop in your browser, done in JavaScript.

[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

give azpainter a try, it's what i used to use for drawing with a 2007 dual core laptop until not too long ago

heads up, the ui is kind of a mess, you most likely will have to re arrange it to your liking and there is a bit of a learning curve there, but it's a pretty powerful piece of drawing/painting software nonetheless

[–] Samueru@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Use Btrfs partition with compression, my entire arch install takes less than 6GiB on disk space, and I have gimp, inkscape and kdenlive installed: https://imgur.com/HofMHUJ.png

In fact I have the OS partition limited to 35GIB. And it should have been 25GIB or less.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

ChromeOS is a bad Platform that causes sick habits due to artificially low hardware standards.

Pinta is a good light drawing app. GIMP or Krita are both heavy for sure.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Lazpaint might be worth a look. Also Mypaint

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

Idk what "container" means in this case, but gimp is only like 80 MB + some dependencies you probably already have installed. Do you mean RAM or HD memory? In any case it should be much less than 64 GB.