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Here in Australia Chromebooks were popular in schools, but in recent years they have lost their gloss: https://au.pcmag.com/laptops/95381/demand-for-google-chromeb...

That’s the point. Hardly anyone uses Chrome OS, but it is still more than Linux.

ChromeOS is Linux.

It is not GNU, though. Perhaps we are actually trying to measure the prevalence of GNU on the desktop?

my wife primarily uses a chromebook (she likes the small form factorfits in her purse and is cheap to replace if she breaks it). She also has a Windows laptop, but she uses that much less often, and almost never takes it places.

(my computers, by contrast, all run Linux, and have for the last 17 years...)

Schools. Chromebooks are generally sold to schools in bulk.

They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.

Everyone using Chromebooks?

It’s popular with schools etc.

I recently went to an event at Google and several of their devs actually had chrome books... :shrug:

Very common in schools in the US, because they are very cheap and easy to manage.

Schools and many many data entry shops..

From a quick search on online stores, it seems Chromebooks are not that rare, there's your answer pretty much

A lot of schools do.