Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
  • float@feddit.de
    61·
    1 year ago

    My girlfriend bought a really cheap one from Lenovo. Besides watching movies and browsing the web there’s not much you can do because ChromeOS is extremely limiting. Wouldn’t ever recommend anyone to buy anything with ChromeOS on it.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        My parents, for whom the internet is the only worthwhile thing a computer can be used for, love their Chromebook

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yep, my parents have a few. Way easier than dealing with them installing windows malware constantly or having to maintain Linux for them.

      • float@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just keep in mind that after update support ends, it’s a ticking time bomb. And there’s basically no “second life” for it because it’s so locked down.