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when I was a kid they had a special room in the school for kids like me who

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wanted to learn about computers but then suddenly poof out goes to the computer

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lab and in comes these things Google's

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partners have sold 100 million Chromebooks in the last 3 years 100

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million though kind of makes sense when you consider how many of these devices

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are purchased by schools or by parents who were forced to buy them by schools

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but it may not just be schools in the future come think of it with that many

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of them out there there may be one in your house right now and you better get

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used to it because Google has made their Linux-based OS so polished over the

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years that these students are growing up with an experience that may just be good

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enough for them to not think of this as a Chromebook but just as their laptop

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could 2020 something finally be the year

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of the Linux desktop but dressed in a chrome costume I believe it will which

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is probably horrifying to just about everyone so let me explain after a quick

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your new rig today Chromebooks originally launched with miserable specs

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I mean even iPhones had more storage space not to mention useful apps you

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might want to fill it with and given their limited functionality not to

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mention their short commitment to software updates compared to a Windows

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or a macOS machine it's no wonder that people saw the first Chromebooks for

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what they were underpowered junk but Google's been playing a long game

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something that softpedia recognized way back in 2015 when they said Microsoft is

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engaged in a silent war and is losing

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just four years after being introduced Chromebooks were slowly eating up market

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share not at home but in schools which I

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mean kind of makes sense most students especially below the college level only

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really need email a web browser and the

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Google productivity suite and getting the schools on board was easy due to the

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cost the cheapest iMac which is what many schools used to have in their

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computer Labs is over $1,200 now so uh hm let me see I can

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have 30 of these and they don't even move or I can have 150 of these h tough

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call Google also helped the schools manage these enormous fleets of machines

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by investing heavily in administrative tools for the Google workspace

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environment account management shared access to files and storage support for

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group collaboration these have all made it easy to adopt the Google ecosystem

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and that's even ignoring the general ease of use and convenient Cloud

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synchronization so in this way Google's kind of The Pusher giving kids their

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first hit hooking them while they're young if you think about it do you know

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anyone who buys an iPhone just because they already have an iPhone and they

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just need a new one familiarity is King but come on lius I can hear you saying I

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mean how does any of that help with this supposed long game if Chromebooks are

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still underpowered e-waist well that's the thing Google recognized that problem

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and this is the fix Chromebook plus

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promises a new minimum standard for Chromebook devices delivering improved

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performance power powerful included software and longer support up to 10

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years all while targeting a $400 starting price this unit from Acer is

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right around that Baseline of Chromebook plus it has a 1080p 15in display a core

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I3 12 Gen processor 8 gigs of ddr5 RAM

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and 128 gigs of storage and we saw this thing for as cheap as

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$270 at Best Buy now there are entry-level Windows machines around that

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same price or in some cases even lower but they make awful compromises on

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everything from performance to display while also running a heavier operating

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system and by the time you're looking at something running Windows with a 1080p

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display you could be paying 50 to $100

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more for that Windows license well you

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know what's not heavy and has no license fee Linux which has always been the

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Beating Heart of chromos just now it's a

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lot easier to unleash these days it is literally one checkbox

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to enable a Linux terminal and to start downloading Linux native software like

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blender just a simple command and

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blender's installed classroom takes about 30 minutes to run with BMW sitting

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at around 15 minutes so all right it's

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not the fastest thing in the world but guys if this was a Windows machine at

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this price in these specs you'd be very impressed for about $250 $ this is very

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usable for day-to-day tasks and in a pinch as we've shown you can even do

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some light real work on it and it's not just blender Ken live is a video editor

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that works on here as well as audacity which is a powerful open- source audio

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capture and editing program the list of native Linux applications really is long

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and continues to grow with the help of the open source community and of course

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some corporate players who have played a role as well with a huge driving force

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behind the recent gaming Renaissance on Linux being valve who has dumped

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significant resources into the proton compatibility layer allowing tons of

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non-native Windows games to be played on Linux and as of quite recently I this

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loading bar ever goes away even Chrome OS time for some distractions from my

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studies let's give it the old restart look I didn't say it was fast this is

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very slow with screen capture running this could be a problem I I will

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try yeah you won't be kickstarting your Twitch streaming career with this setup

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I'm afraid

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o yeah I'm going to stop screen recording

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all right yeah this will work oh okay yeah I think it's basically

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just when it needs to animate quite literally anything it struggles tried

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plugging it in no improvement I don't think it's a performance issue I think

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it's more of a proton translation layer issue let's try something that I know

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runs a little better Hollow

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night all right this is more like it

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this is great this is perfectly

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playable let's try a different

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game this is running great too look

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obviously you're not going to be playing AAA games but within the confines of

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what the hardware can handle you can use proton DB to show what game games are

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natively supported or you can use steam link to remote into a different computer

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or a cloud-based gaming service it's all pretty cool right I mean when I was a

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kid I would have loved to be able to play even simple games and have an

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affordable device that I could call my own and even the camera is reasonably

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decent so is the microphone and I don't even have anything too negative to say

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about the keyboard considering the price now you might still think that these

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devices are just e-w and I get it it's

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not like I'm going to be switching to Chrome OS as my daily driver anytime

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soon but how many people do you know who

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basically use their computer to call man on the weekends or pull up a recipe for

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baking you might not agree with me about this but guys mark my words acceptance

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for cloud applications even heavy ones like 3D modeling animation tools and

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video editing is at an all-time high and Chrome OS will work its way into the

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market as a daily driver operating system for for many people after they

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leave school and join the workplace where the onboarding process could be as

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simple as adding their work account to their Chromebook that they already own

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might not be this year and it might not be next year but I see you Google and

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I'm kind of into it if it means that the year of the Linux desktop can finally

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move Beyond meme status what we'll never

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one where I went and bought my son a Chromebook or excuse me a laptop Chrome

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they've definitely improved since then and I see that trajectory continuing