Open Rocket/Rocksim on Chrome OS

Only thing stopping me getting a Chromebook right now is the lack of Open Rocket / Rocksim support.

Will this change in near future? I'm not a software guy so no idea if it's possible.

ArthurSull said:

Only thing stopping me getting a Chromebook right now is the lack of Open Rocket / Rocksim support.

Will this change in near future? I'm not a software guy so no idea if it's possible.

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If Chrome supports Java open rocket will run on it. My wife's notebook runs unbutu linix and open rocket runs on it just fine.

ArthurSull said:

Only thing stopping me getting a Chromebook right now is the lack of Open Rocket / Rocksim support.

Will this change in near future? I'm not a software guy so no idea if it's possible.

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Chrome OS does not directly support Windows or Java (for OpenRocket) applications. There are some workarounds, but from a quick Google search, it appears that these solutions don't fall into the "just works" category and might have some serious drawbacks, if they work at all (e.g. no Wine on an ARM based Chromebook).

Here are two examples:
https://code.google.com/p/java-on-chromebook/
https://www.howtogeek.com/173353/how-to-run-windows-software-on-a-chromebook/

Reinhard

ArthurSull said:

Only thing stopping me getting a Chromebook right now is the lack of Open Rocket / Rocksim support.

Will this change in near future? I'm not a software guy so no idea if it's possible.

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Stay away from Chrome if it does not support Java, cause it won't run OR or RS.

Andrew

Thanks. A cheap W8 machine will do me then.