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Good Lord, what next? “I switched from Mac to Windows and you can too”?

Might make sense if the Chromebook can be degoogled and set up with a clean Linux distro. Barring that, a regular laptop with Linux may be an option.

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I did switch from MacOS to MS Windows in 2023, after being on MacOS from 2015 (and various Linux distros between about 2000 and 2015; before that, Win98 and earlier versions, so help me God).

I did not think anyone would be interested in reading about any of this, and reading the article reinforces my hypothesis.

Framework has always been appealing to me as a Mac competitor

If I could choose only 1 criterium to select a laptop, it's the quality of the trackpad. So far, I haven't tried anything that comes close to a Macbook.

*criterion. criterium is not even a typo, it’s an actual word but it doesn’t mean what you think it means, unless you’re planning to use your laptop while bicycling.

As a Belgian, I’m very familiar with cycling criteriums, but we use the same word for both! :-)

> So far, I haven't tried anything that comes close to a Macbook.

The trackpad on Apple's newest iPad Pro keyboard case is excellent.

Downside: whenever you go back to your Macbook you'll try poking the screen a lot.

Same, but they are a bit expensive. I assume if TFA put himself through the pain of a Chromebook in the first place, it’s because cost was a significant factor.

Even if you can afford a more expensive laptop, there's just something about knowing you can hit Best buy and just grab a $300 laptop and be back at it, if anything happens to your laptop while you're out and about in the world.

Yeah, it's definitely possible. https://github.com/altreact/archbk shows how you might do this end to end on an older machine and this thread https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=17308 shows some progress in that direction on this particular device.

The real question is if you have enough patience to power through making it work.

No need to reinvent the wheel: https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/installing/installing-lin...

Been running Debian on an hp Chromebook for 2y now.

He could write the same exact post but swap the word "Mac" for "Windows" and the comment section here would be markedly different.

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