More that half of Danish municipalities have equipped schoolkids with Chromebooks -- but some failed to limit which services thay could/should use and so effectively send the kids' personal data out of the country, which caused quite the furor.

That is the first European country I am aware of doing such thing.

I believe Chromebooks will damage childrens digital education. Especially in that age you learn by experimenting and such a system isn't made for that. It is made to display something an equally digitally unqualified teacher wants to display.

Sure, schools cannot offer administration for the numerous IT related issues some systems might have. But that is a secondary problem.

Also, the same problem of dependence remains.

I'm European.

Me too, and never seen them elsewhere other than weekly discounts at Media Markt, until the shop finally gets rid of existing stock.

Also at least in Southern Europe, if kids use computers at the school at all, they tend to be desktop like deployments, and if families have to buy them, then Windows laptops get mostly acquired, as it is something actually usable, and in their budget.

Me too. Most schools here in Austria have Windows "workstations" in primary/secondary school.