> Unlike Windows machines, which have a lifespan of about three years, I still have Chromebooks running that are seven years old.

> True, their Auto Update Expiration (AUE) dates are now history, so I can't get automatic updates anymore. But, so what? Even Google admits you can keep using them after their average five-year expiration date.

Run a real Linux distro and one can keep getting updates as long as the hardware functions.

You can do that with a Chromebook as well. I have an eight-year-old Samsung Chromebook that does just fine with Ubuntu 20.04.

Meh, it requires a Google login to do anything at all.

I'd much rather buy a blank laptop and install a Linux distro.

Not to mention LTS versions of Windows exist. Sure, Windows isn't as good about them in some situations, but pretending there's zero long term support for Windows is a bit dishonest. I got nothing against someone running either, just seems a bit silly to use ChromeOS when better options exist without being tied to Windows (different distros).

I'd be more worried about the build quality of the Chromebook and that lasting more than the OS to be honest, but never had one so no idea how how well they last physically. Not to mention you can almost always find a better, used device (just not a chromebook really) that will work much better, have its own storage and more than likely last longer than 3 years if you know what to look for.

Hey look. Another Google ad.

Like saying, "Why do I love my Mac? Reason One: It's a Unix desktop

 "Chromebooks last pretty much forever. Unlike Windows machines, which have a lifespan of about three years, I still have Chromebooks running that are seven years old. 

True, their Auto Update Expiration (AUE) dates are now history, so I can't get automatic updates anymore. But, so what? Even Google admits you can keep using them after their average five-year expiration date.  

Now, if this were Windows, it would be a different story. Anyone still running Windows 7 is just asking to be hacked unless they got an Extended Security Update (ESU) contract. And, even that is finally ending in January 2023."

Talk about getting paid to shill a shit OS! If anyone is running Windows 7 they can probably upgrade to windows 10....I can't think of many situations where someone can't upgrade due to requirements and frankly if the requirements are the problem then they probably have more to worry about then security!

Also Windows 7 came out in 2009! That's over 10 years old!

Not to mention Windows computers have to run a real OS unlike Chromebooks which have to run ChromeOS which is just a glorified version of a fucking browser...

O ans while I didn't read the whole article since frankly I have read enough to know it's shit and not worth my time, I will talk about the headline ChromeOS isn't a DESKTOP OS! The only devices I know that use ChromeOS are laptops which well aren't a desktop....

We had a support request at work where somebody complained that our web app stopped working for them. Turns out that they had a ten year old Chromebook that ran an ancient version of Chrome that simply couldn’t handle the ES syntax we were using in the new version of the app (the ?. operator), and there were no updates any more.

Chromebooks suck and are cheap cause they lock chrome as the os. You cant install a linux os on one.

Since when do Windows laptops last only 3 years. What a crappy “article”

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Well that is the main reason I like my Mac, because many tools work like... Well, like it's a Unix desktop.

The year of the Linux desktop is finally here, all it took was a non-open platform to limit the OS capabilities and lock the user into a closed ecosystem.