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Chrome OS boots Linux really fast and gives you a usable system within seconds :)

For extremely small values of "usable"...

I attended Google I/O this year and received a Pixel. It's a really nice piece of hardware, but as a developer it's worthless. I saw Google presenters using a lot of Macs and a ThinkPad running Linux. Not a single Chromebook.

With secure shell, you can make it significantly more useful. Of course, you still need a box to SSH into.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

/rant/ Old news, someone on HN assumes everyone is a developer, and in the mean-time 99.9% of the market are not

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