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Re:Maryland will hand out 133k Chromebooks to the public by night-rider on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:58PM (#38369194)
> a vendor locked in Chromebook

Choose your poison. Macbooks are tightly knit with Apple and phone home, but are absurdly expensive and people pay for the privilege of getting spied on. Same with Chromebooks: we're just another datapoint for Google, and much more data is collected. Why not hand out Thinkpads flashed with Trisquel Linux[0]? (A Libre Linux that respects privacy?). And don't get me started on Windows 10/11 lol.

[0] https://trisquel.info/

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Re:Maryland will hand out 133k Chromebooks to the public by graphe on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:08PM (#38369349)
What normal person wants a Thinkpad with Trisquel Linux? If you market the Chromebook as a general purpose coreboot compatible laptop (since 2013) and give them no OS I'm sure the same person that wants a Thinkpad would be even happier.
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Re:Maryland will hand out 133k Chromebooks to the public by evanjrowley on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:39PM (#38369733)
At that price point, I'm willing to bet Secure Boot is locked. That means the user can only run Windows or a small subset of Linux distros with lagging kernel versions.
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