Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399

• whileloop@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Possible != easy. Putting Linux on any old Windows PC is dead easy, takes not even half an hour. Linux on a Chromebook? Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.

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  • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.

    Whenever I read this kind of thing (and people seem to say it pretty often), it seems really weird to me. Same goes for complaining about distro installers. An hour of possible headache/irritation and then you use the machine for years. Obviously it would be better if stuff was easy, but an hour just seems insignificant in the scheme of things. I really just don’t understand seeing it as an actual roadblock.

    (Of course, there are other situations where it could matter like if you had to install/maintain 20 machines, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.)

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    • whileloop@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, its absolutely not a huge deal if you already have a chromebook and just want to keep using it. But if I’m buying a new laptop and I know that putting another OS on it will be unnecessarily difficult, I’m just going to pick a different laptop.

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    • macallik@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good point when you frame it that way, but also worth acknowledging that relative to the alternatives, it is an uphill battle that most won't be bothered with. Reading this site + joining their discord + digging into Github for troubleshooting is not a viable option for 80% of users

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  • HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What makes it so difficult, even though they use similar hardware?

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ChromeOS is Linux.

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  • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well yes but actually no

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  • JaymesRS@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read this in Maurice Moss’ voice

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