(07-20-2024, 10:23 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: @CharlieJV - what I read about Chromebooks after your post looks like this to me: As a Chromebook user, you are 100% subject to the data octopus Google.
Google determines which software you have available. MS Office is a crutch, apparently barely functional. Constant WiFi problems, crashes and so on... No, absolutely no!
If you want to submit to the Google octopus, fine, but compared to that, Microsoft is a rock of freedom and liberality in a dark sea of Submissiveness. That is my opinion.
For example: User Comments
What you describe, I believe to be true about all of them: Google, Microsoft, Apple. They are all equally horrible.
None of them would discard the opportunity to cash-in on that data octopus thing you describe. It would be silly for Microsoft and Apple to not want the related income stream.
A Chromebook allows enabling Linux at the push of a button. Whatever Linux software I want, I can install any time. Which suits me fine, because I stopped using Windows after Windows XP support ended. I don't need any Windows software.
The reason I went with Chromebooks and will keep staying with Chromebooks is because I never have any problems with them. i.e. they don't crash on me. I don't have to put up with the headaches of Windows.
For work, Windows software development with OpenText Gupta Team Developer is my bread and butter: corporate applications with, preferably, an Oracle database backend. I know Windows. I know Chromebooks. I use both on a daily basis. For my personal computing: Chromebooks only. Windows: only for work and only if I'm not responsible for the upkeep of it.
I understand your opinion. But if you haven't used both Windows and ChromeOS on a daily basis, your opinion is quite ill-informed. Just saying...