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I see what you're getting at but there's really nothing Chrome OS offers that can't be replicated on x86 and M1 machines. If he really wants to use it, I'll jus
by bluSCALE4 5y ago
I see what you're getting at but there's really nothing Chrome OS offers that can't be replicated on x86 and M1 machines. If he really wants to use it, I'll just VM Chrome OS, get him a touch screen monitor and call it a day. Chrome OS and iOS for that matter are garbage through and through by design, not by nature and I'll never stop preaching that... basically, if I took your stance, I'd be putting my son at a huge disadvantage the more I think about it.
- mike_d 5y agoThis is like people who think they are vegan so their pets should be too. At no point in the future is your kid going to say "wow dad thanks for teaching me how to stand up to the corporate overlords and opening my eyes to what shit iOS is!" Instead the conversation is going to be "Dad can you loan me money for rent this month? I replaced the proprietary freedom hating operating system on the cash register with an open source alternative and corporate had to fly someone out to fix it so they fired me."
- bluSCALE4 5y agoYou keep thinking that. At the end of the day, if you understand an OS, you can figure out mobile OS in a weekend. Try to setup a web server and write a React application using CI/CD pipeline. While it can be done, it takes hours on mobile and minutes in a Desktop OS. If anything, the tablet will be cannibalized by the Desktop OS as we're already seeing so arguing that I'm doing harm is a moot point.