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    From Morningstarr@HOBBYSPC to All on Wed May 13 18:18:39 2026
    Has anyone used Chrome OS? I used it twice, on my nieces computer. I'm not sure I like it or not.



    ...Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat, though.

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  • From BiggieB@HOBBYSPC/JJAMBBS to Morningstarr on Wed May 13 19:13:09 2026
    Has anyone used Chrome OS? I used it twice, on my nieces computer. I'm not sure I like it or not.


    I have and I'm not a fan of it. Every student in our school system got Chrome books (many thousands) during the COVID years. My kids had to use them100% of the time at home from 1/2 of their sophomore year (starting March 2020) until they graduated in June 2021 since nobody went back to school at all. 100% remote learning for 1.5 years. Maybe the laptops were locked down, but it seemed very limited as to what you could do with them.

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  • From Morningstarr@HOBBYSPC to BiggieB on Wed May 13 20:08:06 2026
    I played around on my niece's laptop. I thought it was a windows laptop, it looks very similar. I couldn't get anything to run though. Then I went to the app store, and found out it wasn't windows lol. It only had Android apps. It was very limited on the app side too. My sister bought it because it was really cheap. They didn't know anything about computers. I noticed the only thing my niece's used it for was youtube. You would think, wow, I can run all these Android phone apps! Well, I don't think many of them are available. They got a long way if they want to grab market share.

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  • From Will-E@HOBBYSPC to Morningstarr on Fri May 15 16:42:25 2026
    They are in just about every school in the nation. We managed several thousand when I worked for the local school system. They are basic little devices, built on Linux, just to be able to do basic web-based tasks. If you boot to recovery mode or have one that's not managed by a Google Apps for Enterprise, you can get to the shell and do things normal Linux things. They do have a basic Android apps and Google apps that you can "install". If you only need to browse the internet, it's a cheap device to be able to do that with.

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  • From Morningstarr@HOBBYSPC to Will-E on Fri May 15 18:13:39 2026
    I figured it was basically for internet use only.

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