Everything you knew about Chromebooks is wrong

Does anyone else find it a little odd, that somebody can fail to understand their chromebook is running a derivative of linux as its core operating system? What does the author think is the code in chromeOS? It's based on the linux kernel. So.. sure. It runs linux "apps" if they use system calls it can either support or map via a library.

And it runs android apps. ok.. so remind me, what is the operating system model which is at the core of android again? Oh right.. It's a derivative of linux..

Not to undermine the core message, but I think a copy editor and a sub-editor with some domain-specific knowledge was needed on this article. Because basically its saying:

"linux derived OS runs linux!!!" very excitedly.

If your system is slowing to a crawl every time you launch Chrome, something is seriously wrong. Try a lighter browser instead.

I'm not in the market for a new laptop and I've moved on from Chrome on the desktop, but the author's points are interesting. I'm afraid of a browser monoculture, which Google and the front-end web development community seems to be pushing towards.