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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by jolmg on Saturday November 23, 2024 @05:53AM (#42220274)
Never used a chromebook. My very rough conception from when they first came out is that it's a cheap laptop with an OS that tries to present a web browser as the OS. Now, I'm reading comments here about getting them "unlocked" and about them having a non-UEFI (and I guess a non-BIOS) boot process, and that sounds awful, to put it kindly. It sounds like user-hostility and vendor lock-in. What other reason is there to forego a standard boot process for a proprietary one?

How are they the "best computing devices [you've] used"?

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by bigfatkitten on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:35AM (#42220408)
> What other reason is there to forego a standard boot process for a proprietary one?

Secure boot that actually works.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by nolist_policy on Sunday November 24, 2024 @09:19AM (#42228027)
It's even worse than you think. Chromebooks run open source Coreboot and you can get the code here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/cor...
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