Frozyre
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Frozyre@kbin.melroy.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads42·9 months agoPfffft…the hell they are.
First off, so few models of Chromebooks even allow you to bother sideloading or outright install a Linux distro over ChromeOS. Eventually, Google cut that stuff out so now almost every Chromebook now won’t allow you to do that without going through some Developer Mode loop that makes you think you’ll get by.
Secondly, Chromebooks are just e-waste. That’s their design. They’re only made to be online-only “laptops” with just an expiration date attached to them, that date being how long Google wants to bother supporting it with security updates provided something doesn’t break down first within the first two years.
Thinkpads have more longevity, they’re built well and they’re meant to go the distance. Chromebooks has been and will continue to be a joke.
Yeah, this comes off as just another blog entry that they haaaaad to show us but should’ve stayed as a blog entry.
This makes about as much sense as when Facebook tried prioritizing Oculus to be a way to browse the internet.
…There’s just no point in it.
But whatever I guess, some ideas have to be realized first before it reaches “well that was a dumb fuck of an idea” phase.