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If you think Chrome OS is going to save you, you haven't been paying attention to Google for the past 10 years.

tcmart14 5y ago
I didn't say it was going to save me. I do think I had a type that said 'good future.' I meant to put something along the lines of 'good probability of a future.' Chrome OS is going to be another user hostile environment for sure. But the point is, Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on.
- userbinator 5y ago
  Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on. That's even worse, because as the saying goes, those who never had freedom (or ownership, for that matter) won't miss it.
  - seanp2k2 5y ago
    Fear not; they'll deprecate Chrome OS and Stadia in the next few years and add it to https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ , which I see has just added AngularJS recently. Google Cloud Print stuck out there too, since we had a big thing about rolling that out at work just a few years ago as the future solution for all our printing needs.
    - tcmart14 5y ago
      Google does kill off a lot of products, but I wouldn't hold my breath on Chrome OS. It is paying off for them in the education space. They have an OS that ships on cheap computers that work well enough for students. Gets them in the google ecosystem and the mind set of Chrome OS is what a computer should be. Not to mention contracts in place with school systems that probably nets them easy money. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/228534/google-40-million-chromebooks-in-use-in-education#:~:text=Today%2C%20Google%20said%20that%20there,there%20were%2030%20million%20users https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/228534/....
  - tcmart14 5y ago
    What is worst or better is not what matters in this instance. This is a matter of the reality of what will probably lead to the adoption of an OS. Would I be happy with Chrome OS displacing Windows? No. Am I happy with Windows having the market share it does? No. But what I want doesn't matter in adoption. What matters is, Chrome OS has a strategy that will probably work. And that strategy doesn't involve tech influences getting excited over the product, it is simply getting it in kid's hand so they think Chrome OS is how a computer should be. Regardless if that is true. That is why Linux adoption for the common user sucks, their first experience was probably Windows, so in their mind, Windows is how a computer should be.
- hulitu 5y ago
  Purchasing decision are made by business executives. I use windows because i am forced by my employer.
  - tcmart14 5y ago
    > kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on I noticed chromebook getting big in the education space and really getting into the hands of kids 7 years so. Your business executives I assume are old enough to pre-date chromebook's big debut in eductaion? They likewise are probably most familiar with Windows and that is why they hand it down as the required bit of software? or probably a sweet business contract, that also plays a factor.
  - gryn 5y ago
    you can do like I do, use window for nothing beside virtual box in which there's your real everyday OS.

I didn't say it was going to save me. I do think I had a type that said 'good future.' I meant to put something along the lines of 'good probability of a future.' Chrome OS is going to be another user hostile environment for sure. But the point is, Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on.

userbinator 5y ago
Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on. That's even worse, because as the saying goes, those who never had freedom (or ownership, for that matter) won't miss it.
- seanp2k2 5y ago
  Fear not; they'll deprecate Chrome OS and Stadia in the next few years and add it to https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ , which I see has just added AngularJS recently. Google Cloud Print stuck out there too, since we had a big thing about rolling that out at work just a few years ago as the future solution for all our printing needs.
  - tcmart14 5y ago
    Google does kill off a lot of products, but I wouldn't hold my breath on Chrome OS. It is paying off for them in the education space. They have an OS that ships on cheap computers that work well enough for students. Gets them in the google ecosystem and the mind set of Chrome OS is what a computer should be. Not to mention contracts in place with school systems that probably nets them easy money. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/228534/google-40-million-chromebooks-in-use-in-education#:~:text=Today%2C%20Google%20said%20that%20there,there%20were%2030%20million%20users https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/228534/....
- tcmart14 5y ago
  What is worst or better is not what matters in this instance. This is a matter of the reality of what will probably lead to the adoption of an OS. Would I be happy with Chrome OS displacing Windows? No. Am I happy with Windows having the market share it does? No. But what I want doesn't matter in adoption. What matters is, Chrome OS has a strategy that will probably work. And that strategy doesn't involve tech influences getting excited over the product, it is simply getting it in kid's hand so they think Chrome OS is how a computer should be. Regardless if that is true. That is why Linux adoption for the common user sucks, their first experience was probably Windows, so in their mind, Windows is how a computer should be.
hulitu 5y ago
Purchasing decision are made by business executives. I use windows because i am forced by my employer.
- tcmart14 5y ago
  > kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on I noticed chromebook getting big in the education space and really getting into the hands of kids 7 years so. Your business executives I assume are old enough to pre-date chromebook's big debut in eductaion? They likewise are probably most familiar with Windows and that is why they hand it down as the required bit of software? or probably a sweet business contract, that also plays a factor.
- gryn 5y ago
  you can do like I do, use window for nothing beside virtual box in which there's your real everyday OS.