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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:56AM (#35602616)
Android and Crostini are only on some flagship devices.

And even in those, the lilliput SSD sizes make them hardly workable versus w regular laptop for the same price range.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by jamespo on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:54PM (#35604158)
That's not accurate, my device a Lenovo Chromebook S345 supports linux containers & android apps and is absolutely not a flagship. You'd struggle to run windows on a similarly priced laptop (cost me £150 a year ago).
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:24PM (#35605287)
It definitely is for the random devices being sold on German stores, usually with repeated discounts until finally someone takes them away.

Most of the time it is not possible to enable it.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by makeitdouble on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:28PM (#35604564)
On the SSD size, it's often the RAM that's really limiting for the linux subsystem. It's the same issue as on cheap windows laptops, only a tad better as ChromeOS is more frugal and orchestrates resources more aggressively.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:25PM (#35605305)
Most cheap Windows devices come with 512GB.

Chrome being frugal, that is interesting. Maybe Electron devs could take some tips from ChromeOS.

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