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I think the idea of Chromebooks are great, unfortunately it is made by the dystopian surveillance company Google and therefore cannot be trusted. I don't really
by ecmascript 3y ago
I think the idea of Chromebooks are great, unfortunately it is made by the dystopian surveillance company Google and therefore cannot be trusted. I don't really want AI capabilities that sends my data back to the mothership embedded in my operating system either.
Otherwise it would be a great laptop experience but I would never buy one for me or my family and I strongly advice people not to buy one either.
The sad part is that people do not realize what data companies like Google holds on them and many would be freaked out if they knew.
- tapoxi 3y agoI think most people know but don't care. Their search history, photos, and email are knowingly stored by Google, but it doesn't impact them. You would need a rogue employee or a massive breach to make people care, I think.
- scarmig 3y agoFedora Silverblue is in some ways comparable. Unfortunately it uses Flatpaks. In the end, the architecture and security (against non-Google adversaries) of ChromeOS trumps everything else for my personal use. And when maintaining things for nontechnical family, ChromeOS eliminates large classes of problems that everything else has.
- xd1936 3y agoWhat don't you like about Flatpaks?
- a1o 3y agoWhat is the alternative to flatpaks for something like silverblue?
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI mean, you could probably put together something that used snaps instead.
- scarmig 3y agoI don't know of anything. I think you could create something pretty solid using Nix, but no one (afaik) has put the effort into making a simple, user friendly OS built on it.
- weatherlight 3y ago..or go a step further and just use nixOS :)
- hospitalJail 3y ago>I don't really want AI capabilities that sends my data back to the mothership embedded in my operating system either. Okay but does this actually happen ever? If you are using Google or Google maps and they mention there is a 711, yeah your location is known. However, I've been avoiding google search since chatgpt, and outside of a few programming searches, google has no idea what I'm doing. Or at least their ads aren't particularly targeted outside the few programming searches. Haven't really been enticed by the 'learn python' ads in the screen I never visit. Can't we also look at the source code? I have been happy with my degoogled products that are open source. That can be trusted. Black boxes cannot be trusted.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoChrome and Chromebook are proprietary, closed source products, built on top of open source code. They are black boxes. Black boxes Google just added literal spyware to this past month. The whole "Google platforms are open source" myth is one of the most ridiculous lies they've managed to sell people on.
- nolist_policy 3y agoIf you're okay with Windows 11 you gotta be okay with ChromeOS too. And you don't have to use any of the Google services, you can install Libreoffice, Thunderbird, etc. just fine in the Crostini Linux environment.
- freeAgent 3y agoThere are options beyond Chrome OS and Windows, and I'd say that almost all of them offer better privacy protections.
- ecmascript 3y agoI'm not okay with Windows 11.