• seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Chromebooks are amazing for a certain type of low technical skill person. Older parents and grandparents in particular are exactly the kind of people that Chromebooks are for. There’s zero technical support burden and if anything goes wrong a power wash solves it.

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      3 months ago

      That sounds pretty good, why wouldn’t you recommend it then, are there better alternatives?

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        3 months ago

        Oh I totally recommend Chromebooks, they almost entirely eliminate the tech support burden from having a parent/grandparent who doesn’t get computers. It was the dude above me who crapped on them.

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            3 months ago

            So buy Chromebooks from other oems?

            Chromium is about 99.5% open source, there’s no real problem with the OS itself. If you’re afraid of Google tracking just use the machine with the guest account.