ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS?

Re:ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS? by InTheArena on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:30AM (#19226113)

I've tried but failed. There are a couple of key issues: 1) The first is that the chromebook that I purchased before the Crostini announcement (Asus C302CA), which was very much a flagship laptop remains unsupported. The wonderful software update hell of the google ecosystem bit me here.

2) I do a lot of work on airplanes, so not everything can run on a cloud instance. Apple cost too much (and has a remarkable lack of native apps for things like netflix). I also need it to fit on a airplane without jamming my elbows into my sternum due to size. The Chromebook has the form factor, but not the flexibility to work when the net is spotty(again, Crostini probably helps this out).

What I ended up doing ironically was a Surface Go. Great keyboard, nice form factor, and WSL support. 8GB of RAM (which is really needed by notebooks) and it works on plane.

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Re:ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS? by PopeDotNinja on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:36AM (#19226167)

I don't understand the appeal of cloud only/mostly computing for non-trivial use cases. It's probably that I care a lot more about Internet hiccups getting in my way than most. To me it'd be like having a smartphone that only unlocks when there's a signal.

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Re:ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS? by cyberpip on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:39AM (#19226188)

FWIW, it will unlock when there is no signal. I unlock mine with my phone using Smart Lock (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160273?hl=en).

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Re:ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS? by wlesieutre on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:33AM (#19226136)

Netflix is one of very few examples where I expect the upcoming Marzipan iOS -> Mac app conversion to be decent.

If the quality of Apple’s own Stocks/News/Home conversions is anything to go by it’s not going to make for good software. But I’d take it for offline Netflix viewing.

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