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Originally Posted by sl42
To me a piece of hardware is a piece of hardware - what happens to be on the hard drive when you buy it certainly doesn't dictate what you do with it. All but one of the computers I've purchased over the last twenty years have been "windowsbooks" by that logic. I purchased them to run the OS and software that I use, and the fact that Windows was installed by the manufacturer is of no concern to me, other than the minor annoyance that Microsoft gets another few unearned bucks just like they do from almost every Linux user for most of their purchases (unless you go out of your way to buy a machine with Linux/No OS installed/build from scratch), but that's just the way the world works.
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Hi SL42, my post wasn't in any way decrying the use of Chromebook hardware to run Linux. Far from it. Go for it.
I was commenting on the fact that a year or so ago, booting into Chrubuntu and the like was a hot topic, but now my perception is that the use of ChromeOS itself has become the conversation among the pundits. The journalists are finally starting to 'get' why people like it - even though, as you point out, running a full desktop operating system would provide more features and power.
As APK said below:
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Originally Posted by APK
On my wife's system with Crouton, she only ever launches Linux to play Minecraft with the family.
Everything else she does can be done faster and more handily in ChromeOS.
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What many commentators were missing in the early days is that ChromeOS is a pleasure to use. Sure, my Windows box can do more, but I fire up my ChromeOS machines when I'm doing the 95% of my activity that they can handle, because it's a smoother, nicer environment than Windows.
And I
like Windows.
Graham