Most of that time was spent riding to and from the store.Īnother Chromebook plus is that replacing the system costs me less than $500. My total downtime from when my old Chromebook went bang to returning to the exact same line I'd been working on earlier was just over an hour. Instead, I ran out to the closest Best Buy and picked up the aforementioned HP Chromebook X360.
At a minimum, I'd lose a day's work, and I don't know about you, but I can't afford to use that much work time. I'd have to buy one, update it - which is never trivial if I were a Windows user- and then install and update my software. Now, I'd be stuck if I were running an ordinary Windows, MacBook, or Linux laptop. Recently, when I was at Open Source Summit North America in Austin, Texas, when an electrical surge blew out my Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5, a top two-in-one Chromebook/tablet. But, when I'm on the road, I like having a lightweight, cheap laptop that I can replace if I break it.Īnd, alas, as a klutz, I break my laptops a lot. I have a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu Linux, an older XPS 13 with Mint Linux on it, and Fedora Workstation on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1. So, why don't I just run Linux on a laptop? Well, I do that too. But, Google is expected to separate Chrome OS and the Chrome browser, so even if you can't get Chrome OS upgrades, you'll still get browser updates. The browser, which is also Chrome OS's desktop interface, often has important security updates. Of course, the Chrome browser is another story. For example, the last major Chrome OS security holes popped up and were fixed in 2019. But why that VPN? How WireGuard made it into LinuxĬhrome OS, though? Unlike Windows, with its monthly major security patches, serious security problems are few and far between.The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring.Securing open-source code isn't going to be cheap.Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?.And, even that is finally ending in January 2023. Anyone still running Windows 7 is just asking to be hacked unless they got an Extended Security Update (ESU) contract. Now, if this were Windows, it would be a different story.
But, so what? Even Google admits you can keep using them after their average five-year expiration date. True, their Auto Update Expiration (AUE) dates are now history, so I can't get automatic updates anymore.
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