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> Android handsets and Chromebooks Linux computers makes me cringe a bit. Why?

• chippy 11y ago
  I believe the comment was saying: calling Android handsets and Chromebooks "linux computers" makes me cringe (versus "both android handsets and chromebooks make me cringe") if that helps understand the context a bit more.
  • jhasse 11y ago
    Ups, yeah. Sorry I just missed copying the whole sentence by accident. I wanted to know why it makes him cringe to call them Linux computers ;)
    • skosch 11y ago
      Presumably because they're so far removed from the Linux-On-The-Desktop Experience™ we (the HN crowd) are familiar with. It's the tradeoff between mass-market UX and raw power and customizability, and Android/Chromebooks are at one end of the spectrum while what we associate with "Linux computers" is at the other.