This is my personal computer, not a school-issued device. I quite like ChromeOS because it's a well-polished and seamless alternative to more standard Linux distros like Ubuntu or Fedora. The biggest advantage to me is the Debian hypervisor that allows me to run standard Linux programs in a sandboxed environment. If I fuck up something in the hypervisor, worst case scenario is me having to wipe the hypervisor and 10 minutes to reinstall applications. The actual ChromeOS stuff is basically untouchable to me and I don't really ever have to worry about reinstalling my operating system ever again.
Edit: and to those of you that are going to ask "Why not just use VMs on a normal Linux distro?", the answer is all about performance. I'm not familiar with how most of this technology works, but there's almost zero performance loss compared to running shit natively (versus my old Windows install).
As an example, Minecraft with Sodium runs at about 5 FPS lower than what it would natively.
Edit: and to those of you that are going to ask "Why not just use VMs on a normal Linux distro?", the answer is all about performance. I'm not familiar with how most of this technology works, but there's almost zero performance loss compared to running shit natively (versus my old Windows install).
As an example, Minecraft with Sodium runs at about 5 FPS lower than what it would natively.
