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Okay so your okay with Windows 10 S being more Chrome OS and locked down by default?

by baldfat 10y ago

belltaco 10y ago
Not really, but when was the last time you saw a HN article with a title like "Google is stealing computing freedoms with Chromebooks". Instead, the Chromebook posts and comments on here are mostly about how they're malware free and perfect for older parents and kids, and how they're selling like hotcakes taking over the education market from Windows and Macbooks.
- baldfat 10y ago
  I don't have a problem with Chromebooks as a pragmatic Linux user. Google has been very open in what it was for and who it was for. It wasn't marketed as a general purpose computer. It just was a better tool for certain instances where cloud computing could fill their needs. To be anti-Chrome OS is to be anti-cloud and to my pragmatic goofball thinking I LOVE the cloud even if I do own my own Linux server at home. Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time. So I see it as a tool that works for these types of people and is much better then a tablet.
  - belltaco 10y ago
    >Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time. I don't see how Windows 10S is different. It'd be free of malware like "codecs" and spyware that's so common because everything has to run in a strict sandbox plus approved through the Store approval process. Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well and if you decide as a parent that you want your child to run whatever they want there's an option to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. They're marketing it to Education users just like Chromebooks are, not as a 'general purpose computer'. Windows 10 will still be available on all other devices so I don't understand how you perceive these devices to be so different from Chromebooks. You can hand them to kids and parents and not risk them getting unstable or harmed by downloads.
    - baldfat 10y ago
      > Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well Your 100% right but 1) The Hardware. They have a $999 Surface Laptop that screams general purpose laptop, but it is Windows 10 S. That right their is the reason why I brought up Steam. That is a laptop very capable of doing a lot but instead it is a Chromebook lock down? 2) The world knows Windows as a general computer operating system. Now we had RT and now S that changes that.

Okay so your okay with Windows 10 S being more Chrome OS and locked down by default?

by baldfat 10y ago

Okay so your okay with Windows 10 S being more Chrome OS and locked down by default?

Not really, but when was the last time you saw a HN article with a title like "Google is stealing computing freedoms with Chromebooks". Instead, the Chromebook posts and comments on here are mostly about how they're malware free and perfect for older parents and kids, and how they're selling like hotcakes taking over the education market from Windows and Macbooks.

baldfat 10y ago
I don't have a problem with Chromebooks as a pragmatic Linux user. Google has been very open in what it was for and who it was for. It wasn't marketed as a general purpose computer. It just was a better tool for certain instances where cloud computing could fill their needs. To be anti-Chrome OS is to be anti-cloud and to my pragmatic goofball thinking I LOVE the cloud even if I do own my own Linux server at home. Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time. So I see it as a tool that works for these types of people and is much better then a tablet.
- belltaco 10y ago
  >Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time. I don't see how Windows 10S is different. It'd be free of malware like "codecs" and spyware that's so common because everything has to run in a strict sandbox plus approved through the Store approval process. Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well and if you decide as a parent that you want your child to run whatever they want there's an option to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. They're marketing it to Education users just like Chromebooks are, not as a 'general purpose computer'. Windows 10 will still be available on all other devices so I don't understand how you perceive these devices to be so different from Chromebooks. You can hand them to kids and parents and not risk them getting unstable or harmed by downloads.
  - baldfat 10y ago
    > Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well Your 100% right but 1) The Hardware. They have a $999 Surface Laptop that screams general purpose laptop, but it is Windows 10 S. That right their is the reason why I brought up Steam. That is a laptop very capable of doing a lot but instead it is a Chromebook lock down? 2) The world knows Windows as a general computer operating system. Now we had RT and now S that changes that.