Hence the existence of Chrome OS.
Which is useless besides browsing the internet.
[1] This phrase is a self-deprecating remark about my own joke making abilities, not a slight at parent.
There’s a general theme in Emacs users’ testimonials that you end up doing everything in Emacs. For many that includes web browsing. Hence the joke.
It doesn’t include web browsing for me but no condescension intended. If you don’t like my joke, that’s okay. I’m sorry.
Edit: Also not intended to be condescending towards your grandparent commenter. Apologies again.
My dad spent a couple years basically using it as his standard OS while consulting. Couldn't guarantee what software a company required, but if everything was done through emacs, he'd have no problem setting it up to his liking.
Emails, builds, etc. I think this was before the web browser was up to snuff though. I never quite got into it at that level, but the power users easily demonstrate the value of knowing a powerful system very well.
Yes it's not perfect. But it is a lot more than it was when it was released. I only replaced it with Fedora Kinoite when the outdated Chrome browser version started getting in my way.
What else do most people, outside of tech, use computers for? There are web apps for basically everything now. Chromebooks have replaced 'real' computers in most schools and I'm really surprised that they haven't in most Offices. A lot of the windows PCs in offices end up being used as dumb terminals to run citrix or access web apps anyway.