Backstory
I've wanted to dabble in digital art for some time now, and I finally got up the motivation to play around with it a bit on my dinosaur laptop. My 8 year old was showing some interest in drawing, and I thought she might have fun doing animation, so I started looking around for animation software. I found several programs, including opentoonz, synfig, and pencil2d. While she was immediately fascinated (and almost just a quickly lost interest), I was annoyed by how difficult it was to try to draw anything with a mouse.
Not long ago we had replaced my wife's aging Lenovo Twist with a Lenovo C330 Chromebook. For under $250 it was quite adequate for her needs. Being that it was a touch screen device, I thought it might be better suited for digital art, so I began looking into whether the programs I'd installed in Ubuntu could be used on it. There wasn't a Chromebook version, per se (boo), but it turns out that Chromebooks can now run Linux apps (yay!), but only if they have a version for ARM processors (boo). "Welp," I thought, "guess I'll just have to see about building from source." How hard could that be, right?
For any non-techies who just want this to work, don't be scared. It's actually pretty straight forward...
