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TL;DW: the exploding hate is due to Windows transitioning into a fully cloud-first OS.
by fouc 7mo ago
TL;DW: the exploding hate is due to Windows transitioning into a fully cloud-first OS.
- rbanffy 7mo agoNobody passionately hates Chromebooks.
- moi2388 7mo agoI do
- rbanffy 7mo agoI respect you. It's very hard to be passionate about something as bland as a Chromebook. It's like being passionate about tofu, or toothpaste, or baby shampoo.
- frizlab 7mo agoMe too
- rbanffy 7mo agoI recently helped liberate about 70 EOL'ed Chromebooks. Now students in a college near me will get free laptops they can actually use for college work, running the latest and greatest Linux distros.
- card_zero 7mo agoOh well that's a different matter. Nobody hates acceptable cheap hardware.
- westurner 7mo agoSusyQ USB-C Cable + USB-A to USB-C Cable + Coreboot? Recently liberated a Chromebook that powerwashed my hours of manual provisioning again due to remote login control failure FWICS Can't believe how much faster the same machine is with a modern Linux distro. (ChromiumOS was originally Gnome and Chrome on a Gentoo derivative by Linux workstation users, but now has a "Turn on Linux" button greyed out for all the kids.) Mrchromebox > Supported Devices: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html It's possible to install a list of apps with a script on Win, Mac, and Linux computers. Try to `adb install com.google.android.calculator`. Which should be the security priority? App download counts or automated provisioning?
- nytesky 7mo agoOh I thought it was a very dodgy process. Can you give some pointers? I will also ask an LLM?
- iamnothere 7mo agoHere you go https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/
- rbanffy 7mo agoThis was it. It involved dismantling the machine, removing a screw, and some other maneuvers.
- iamnothere 7mo agoDepends on the Chromebook. Some use a screw as a write protect jumper, some do not.
- rbanffy 7mo agoAgreed. This was, so far, my worst experience with liberation of locked down machines. It’s fun that it scaled to that many units.
- sli 7mo agoI'm absolutely sure there are people who do. Chromebooks just have a practically nonexistant market share compared to Windows, and a lot of those users being kids being issued school laptops probably doesn't translate to a lot of visible complaining about Chromebook-specific problems.
- card_zero 7mo agoWhat? I passionately hate Chromebooks, firstly because they were conceived as a power grab by Google to get people to do everything through online Google services instead of locally, and secondly in a more personal way when I actually had to use one, in a remote hostel with ropey internet.
- rbanffy 7mo agoYou hate Google. I don't like them, but they are OK computers that lack some important keys. Lacking a Meta key makes using Gnome less convenient. You are not forced to use Gmail or Google Docs. You are mostly forced to use a browser, unless you jailbreak it.
- nytesky 7mo agoI really dislike the “expiration” date, and at one point they were very short (5 years) and poorly documented so it was a nasty surprise if you got an older model on sale.
- rbanffy 7mo agoI recently helped liberate 70 Chromebooks that were going to recycling. Now students get a Linux laptop for free.
- nytesky 7mo agoI don’t think I have ever spent over $100 on a Chromebook. I can’t imagine putting serious money in one; it’s a toy/disposable computer.
- expedition32 7mo agoWhich is exactly what the entire market is doing- except for Linux but come on that OS will never be relevant.