How I managed to install a working IntelliJ Idea CE on an ARM Chromebook

Despite official Linux support in ChromeOS, ARM based Chromebook owners are still being orphans of dedicated builds for most tools.

Nowadays you can easily download and install Visual Studio Code but ARM based Chromebook still lack official support from Android Studio (and we’re still a long way to it, if ever…) or even IntelliJ IDEA on which AS is based.

Here follows my experience in installing IntelliJ IDEA CE on my Lenovo Chromebook Duet and a simple step by step guide on how to…