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Re:What Dropbox dropping Linux support says by Karunamon on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:32AM (#17858630)
>Over that 18 months, I'd say that 85% of people who needed my help were looking for machines that could do exactly that.

Woudln't a Chromebook fit their use case a bit better? The chances of needing to drop to a CLI to do something basic or fix some thing that an update broke drops from low double digits to effectively zero.

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Re:What Dropbox dropping Linux support says by ghaff on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:53AM (#17858794)
If all you really need is a browser anyway, I don't know why you wouldn't use a Chromebook. That's not a knock on Linux. It's a knock on any full-blown desktop OS.

I certainly couldn't use a Chromebook as my only machine. I need other systems for working with media, games, etc. But I travel as often as not with just a Chromebook these days.

Added: Or just a tablet. My dad always considered PCs a necessary evil. He doesn't really type much and he's far happier with my old iPad than he ever was with a PC--or than he would be with a Chromebook.

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