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The active measures are to block unwanted changes by a virus or whatever, protecting naive users from takeover. They explicitly tell you how to take this off if
by Latteland 8y ago
The active measures are to block unwanted changes by a virus or whatever, protecting naive users from takeover. They explicitly tell you how to take this off if you want. Other companies don't do that. It's missing the whole point of chrome on to complain that it takes 5 minutes to overcome the cryptographically signed of that protects most users from harm.
- asveikau 8y agoI disagree. It is this same confusion, and I use that word intentionally, that makes people think user serviceability and safety from malware are mutually exclusive. Edit: let me elaborate on what I think is the reason. They are selling the hardware at a loss or close to it. When you put Linux on there you eat their revenue. Instead of being honest about this, they dress it up in a bunch of phony security talk. They don't want people reselling them as useful Linux workstations.
- Latteland 8y agoIt's possible they are selling the hardware at a loss but my experience is the opposite case. If you compare specs of laptops generally a chromebook laptop seems to cost more than a windows laptop of similar capabilities. I think the reason chromebooks cost more not less is because they sell fewer of them. You can buy a cheaper low end windows laptop and install any old os, usually.