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As the other comment said, the emotion is mostly misplaced. Quite a lot of effort has gone in to making chromebooks work the way they do. The documentation or t
by bubblethink 8y ago
As the other comment said, the emotion is mostly misplaced. Quite a lot of effort has gone in to making chromebooks work the way they do. The documentation or the low level code may not be perfect from the standpoint of alternate OSes, but chromebooks are literally the most open laptops you can buy (barring a few niche products at the moment like purism's).
- remyrd 8y agoAny laptop that allows dual boot is more open than a chromebook. And that's a Really big number
- bubblethink 8y agoThat's "missing forest for the trees". Most laptops ship with rubbish AMI bios and bootguard enabled making them objectively less open. Chromebooks let you do whatever you want, although google does not do a lot of heavylifting for you. There are apparently some plans in the works by google for making things like dual booting more convenient, but nothing official yet.
- saagarjha 8y agoChromebooks can be dual booted. So are they open enough for you?