Because schools need cheap laptops that are easy to centrally manage by a single platform. Google also has a Workspace for Education suite that includes all the

Because schools need cheap laptops that are easy to centrally manage by a single platform. Google also has a Workspace for Education suite that includes all the Google Docs stuff and teacher tools (Google Classroom). They also have a no ads or data collected policy. It's very enticing. There's no real competition. The closest is Microsoft but Windows machines are much more expensive to manage and have worse performance on low-end hardware. Let's imagine what HN wants - a Linux laptop running Firefox and LibreOffice. You're not going to get fleet management features, collaborative document editing, or built-in classroom management tools. Kids are still going to Google to search for things (and use ChatGPT).