Why I Use a Chromebox

I'm the author of the linked post.

I did use various Linux distros from the mid 1990s until switching to chromeOS, but I got exasperated with maintenance. Device driver support was suboptimal and system updates would often break something and throw me into the console, forcing me to waste days troubleshooting and fixing whatever broke and restore X.

I had enough with Linux maintenance, realized I was living in Chrome anyway, didn't mind Google, and decided to give chromeOS a try. Seven years and four chromeOS devices later, I never had a single system update issue, and maintenance simply disappeared.

Along with Linux I also used Windows and MacOS, but liked Linux much more.

I’d usually say drivers, since Google guarantees that Chrome OS runs right on hardware they certify, but this is a desktop. Linux runs fine on desktops, it’s laptops where it has trouble.

In the intro he says he switched to chromeOS in 2015. This whole article is "look! Operating System!" Except for once it's not some arch variant or plan9.

I always wonder why there is still such a distinction between „security“ and „privacy“ threats.

Of course i data loss, extortion / ransom etc… still i feel it‘s playing into the hands of the big guys to keep believing it would be two separated topics. In the real world of today, it is not really.

So saying it is „…safe (too), however a privacy nightmare“ just doesn‘t sit right with me. Especially when talking about google.

I'm the author of the linked post and in another comment in the thread I elaborated on why I didn't use Linux directly.

I'm the author of the linked post. It's not much that I need Crostini, it's that I put it to good use once chromeOS supported it.