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Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%

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[–] lightsecond@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Interesting read. I was genuinely surprised to read that ChromeOS has 4%+ desktop market share. It’s not popular at all where I am from. I’ve never ever seen one in person.

[–] bill_1992@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of schools use Chromebooks for their students. They're cheap laptops that are easier to administer than Windows.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

I used to sell laptops. Most of my customers were elderly people who only needed to watch Netflix, do their banking, check emails, etc. Chromebooks flew off the shelves.

It was the College-bound kids who insisted on a proper laptop.

[–] TheSporkBomber@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably for schools with chromebooks. I've never seen one in the wild either.

[–] LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Extremely old and extremely young people get them