Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

1. The default user is the root user, so you can install software as needed.

2. Google Colab notebook does not support terminal but it can be hacked to run JupyterLab.

3. You can require FREE GPU/TPU resource by change the runtime type of the notebook.

References

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/essential-google-colaboratory-tips-tricks.html

https://imadelhanafi.com/posts/google_colal_server/

https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gpu-tutorial-e113627b9f5d