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Give a Pixel Book a try.

It has plenty of differences from Mac OS, but most of them are positive.

If Google could get Adobe on-board with Linux support, and built a consumer foot-print a la Apple, I'd probably go there.

Dealing with their crappy third-party resellers is just a non-starter. It says that Google doesn't stand behind their own product with their own customer service, and I just can't abide that.



> It has plenty of differences from Mac OS, but most of them are positive.

Like what? The lack of all desktop software? It is only even halfway decent if you live out of a web browser.


With crostini you can now run linux apps. It is still in beta.


I tried this by the way, you pay in performance in a big way. Even if you don’t need hardware acceleration the general compile performance is bad, about 3X longer on a large angular project than a MacBook Air.


Ah, good to know. Haven't tried Chromebooks in a while because I didn't want only a browser. Might revisit when this hits stable.


It's a dirty dirty myth that you can only run Chrome in ChromeOS: https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew

You don't even need Crostini.


Yeah, I was running Firefox via crostini for a while and it worked really well.


>If Google could get Adobe on-board with Linux support

Google may convince Adobe to make one for Android like in iPad Pro which will function fine on Chromebook, there's no reason for Adobe to start supporting Linux.




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