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I have owned multiple chromebooks and they have all been fantastic. Maybe limited in some regards, but still the best computing devices I have used.
by daghamm 2y ago
I have owned multiple chromebooks and they have all been fantastic.
Maybe limited in some regards, but still the best computing devices I have used.
- jolmg 2y agoNever used a chromebook. My very rough conception from when they first came out is that it's a cheap laptop with an OS that tries to present a web browser as the OS. Now, I'm reading comments here about getting them "unlocked" and about them having a non-UEFI (and I guess a non-BIOS) boot process, and that sounds awful, to put it kindly. It sounds like user-hostility and vendor lock-in. What other reason is there to forego a standard boot process for a proprietary one? How are they the "best computing devices [you've] used"?
- bigfatkitten 2y ago> What other reason is there to forego a standard boot process for a proprietary one? Secure boot that actually works. https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/verified-boot/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
- nolist_policy 2y agoIt's even worse than you think. Chromebooks run open source Coreboot and you can get the code here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/coreboot/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/cor...