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nteract is very nice.

VS Code’s notebook support is great.

PyCharm’s built in notebook functionality is hot, buggy, barely-documented garbage.

I had the same problem. I solve it by going to the official website of nteract https://nteract.io/ and instead of clicking on the button that says "Try nteract desktop for Linux", I clicked on Download for other platforms and it brings me to https://github.com/nteract/nteract/releases/tag/v0.25.0. I then choose the .deb file and install nteract using that file.

> Does someone know of an alternative?

You can install “Visual Studio Code” and use this package [1].

However, if by “alternative” you mean “another package for Atom” then try this [2][3].

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.jupyter
[2] https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
[3] https://nteract.io/atom

You can use nteract that is lightweight desktop app available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux) and send your .ipynb file via e-mail or through shared folder. More sophisticated way would be using GitHub for this purposes but it requires some efforts to understand how it works. Hope this helps.