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One Google+ reader commented that Chrome OS, the Linux-based operating system that runs on Chromebooks is "a web browser, not a desktop. Good thing, but not the same at all.”

Torvalds' response to that commenter hits the nail on the head:

It's not a desktop exactly the same way that PC's were not "real computers" when they started showing up?

The arguments were the same back then. "Cheap toy, you can't get real work done".

The whole "it's not the same thing" is simply not an argument. Of course it's not the same thing. Computing changes all the time.”

http://www.cio.com/article/3073897/l...-macbooks.html