Comments on: Five Common Chromebook Myths Debunked

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:11:19 +0000

In reply to Jason H. "Chrome OS still caters to the “tinkerer” crowd. " In what ways? It is more tightly locked down than Windows or OS/X. Tinkerers use Linux, BSD and other *nixes and derivatives.

By: Jason H

Jason H — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:15:15 +0000

Is Chrome OS coming for the Big Three? Nope. It serves a weird gray area between tablet and laptop that only a relatively small group want. Why would I burden myself with the quirks of this hybrid system when I can get more horsepower and better application compatibility with a purely Linux, Windows or Mac laptop? Or an iOS or Android tablet?

Chrome OS still caters to the “tinkerer” crowd. “Tinkering” is NOT a feature, folks. Stop thinking that it is. Business professionals don’t want to tinker, we want to get work done. If I have to look for workarounds to do certain things, then Chrome OS isn’t the operating system for me.

By: sola

sola — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:25:27 +0000

“Is Chrome coming for the big three?”

This doesn’t make much sense. It cannot come for Linux since ChromeOS itself is a fairly traditional Linux distribution (unlike Android).

ChromeOS uses Wayland (the new generation Linux display server technology) for the Android app integration and the Linux app integration.

The graphical desktop environment is cut-down but is probably also based on Linux technologies and has fairly standard desktop/laptop layout (like Unity or KDE or Windows itself).

It uses standard Linux containerization techniques to jail Android and Linux apps.

By: Nonya

Nonya — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:01:11 +0000

I can get much better value for my money buying an off-lease Thinkpad! Better performance, more memory, and I can avoid Google spying on everything I do by installing the Linux distro of my choice! Cloud computing, net apps, call it what yo want…its still your data on someone else’s computer and out of your control!! Android apps mostly suck. When you cut through all of the bull***t, a chromebook will never be as useful as a normal laptop. And even should that happen, the chromebook will still not be anything special, nor will they make sense for business or home users!!!!

By: Lexridge

Lexridge — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:41:52 +0000

Question 5 is a misnomer. Chrome OS is Linux. The heading should be “Is Chrome coming for the big two?” and leave Linux as part of the big three, completely out of the paragraph.