(07-22-2024, 01:05 AM)bert22306 Wrote: I'm not personally familiar with Chromebook. I think of it as a "thin client," dependent
Eh, from my experience, that's a brutally misinformed way to think of it. Today's Chromebook is the furthest thing from a thin client.
Sure, whether ChromeOS, Windows, Linux, whatever kind of OS and whatever kind of device: it is more often than not useless to me if I don't have access to the web.
However, when the web is out, I can still access my email, create/edit Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Draw, etc.
I can still run whatever Android apps installed from Google Play on my Chromebook. And I've still got Debian Linux (which is enabled/installed on my Chromebook with just a button press) and whatever packages installed (including QB64 and Spiderbasic.)
Thinking of a Chromebook as a thin client may have been a fair-ish assessment when the first ones came out in 2011.
For the last 6 years or so, I can do as much with my Chromebook as I ever could with any Windows machine (but only because there is nothing I need that requires a Windows machine.) Well, as long as one doesn't go bargain-basement or get one that is (or is close-to-be) no longer supported by updates.
You get a Windows machine if you need software that only runs on Windows and/or you need services only available for Windows. You get a Mac if you need software that only runs on Mac and/or you need services only available for Mac. If you need Linux, or Linux will do: then a Chromebook is great. If you really don't need any of Windows/Mac/Linux (or only need Linux sometimes) then a Chromebook is hands-down fantastic.
Hey, I appreciate all tech, but I prefer to own and use tech that doesn't give me any grief.