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Originally Posted by The Old Man
Fed up with Windows. Thinking of an Acer Chromebook. Using Sheets, surfing the Internet, email. Any comments, suggestions. Positive and negative.
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Would probably work for your purposes.
Just bear in mind that your Chromebook has a much shorter lifespan than your average laptop running Windows/Mac/Linux. Other consumer laptops are usually guaranteed about ten years of OS updates, BIOS updates, etc. And even if your laptop is running Windows 10 and suddenly goes EOL next year because they want you to upgrade to Windows 11, the device is still very much usable, especially if you then decide to blow Windows away and install Linux on it or something.
By contrast, Chromebooks are basically only useful as long as Google is still delivering updates to the device. Once they decide the Chromebook is EOL and no longer getting Chrome updates, it may still
work, but it borders on "unsafe" to use for anything sensitive because it's no longer getting security updates.
Also, at that point, it's quite a bit more difficult to "blow away" ChromeOS and load something else. I managed to do it on my original Chromebook Pixel (god I loved that thing--pretty much everything except the battery life was just amazing), but it required physically removing a write-protect screw on the motherboard. Had Linux Mint running on it for awhile, then gave it to my wife as a backup machine, and it's been sitting in a drawer ever since.