ChromeOS is everywhere in public schools in Denmark. I doubt that Denmark and the Netherlands are the only two EU countryes that use them.

However, ChromeBooks will also be banned i Danish schools when the new school year starts in August. The Danish Personal Data Authority (Datatilsynet) have just told the schools that they cannot use them after the summer holidays, for more or less the same reasons and their Dutch colleagues.

The problem then becomes: Which laptops can you get in large enough numbers, at a low enough price, within three to four weeks?

In Germany and Portugal, you only see them in shopping malls mostly, and regularly with shop offers to get rid of them.

Most European countries aren't so lucky, parents are the ones buying the computers, and unless you're into classes related to computing, or at university level, you're not bringing them into class (naturally covid has changed this a bit) only using them at home.

In Germany, the schools provide iPads and I suspect others provide chromebooks. Schools do provide computers for children to use in the school. Nearly all school levels have classes these days about computing. Needing to know how to use a computer is a skill they all need. Primary schools in the UK have had computers for at least 30 years.

Somehow I have another view on the matter, specially on the chaos that happened with sharing computers among family members during early COVID times.

It's because of early covid times that I know German schools have iPads. In Berlin, one school was robbed of tens of thousands of euros of iPads.

I guess some lucky Gymnasium students, it surely isn't like that everywhere outside our beloved capital.

> Which laptops can you get in large enough numbers, at a low enough price, within three to four weeks?

Can they install a Linux distribution on the existing ChromeBooks?