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I'm starting to come around to the idea that the upcoming crop of professional / premium Chromebooks would be the best Linux devices. First, under straight Lin
by derekp7 8y ago
I'm starting to come around to the idea that the upcoming crop of professional / premium Chromebooks would be the best Linux devices. First, under straight Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc) you are still treated as a second class citizen from a number of entities. Netflix works good on Chrome on Linux, but Hulu downgrades the resolution, and some services like Xfinity streaming choose not to work at all.
Whereas on a Chromebook, even though it is basically the Chrome browser on Linux, these other entities don't really have a choice to ignore them, due to a significant enough user base. Just like Apple forced a lot of sites to give up Flash since they didn't support it (either give up flash, or lose users).
With Android app support, that fills in a lot of missing pieces in Chrome OS, and Crostini, with full Linux distro support, will fill in the rest of the holes once it is finished (i.e., audio support, full graphics acceleration, external storage support, etc). Can't wait to see what the next crop of decent Chromebooks will be -- just bought an HP Chromebook X2, and it is really looking good so far.