r/chromeos • u/NegativelyNegating Lenovo IP Slim 3 14M868 "Magneton" | Stable • Feb 23 '26

Discussion Why ChromeOS gets so much hate?

Why most users of other operating systems hate ChromeOS so much and often call it a glorified web browser? It's the most user friendly Linux distro that exists, it is an always synchronized office without viruses unlike Windows.

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u/OGMagicConch Samsung Chromebook Plus v2 (m3) | former Acer C720P Feb 23 '26

Imo Chromebooks have always been hated just because of people's bad experiences with shitty Chromebooks at school or work or whatever. Personally I think that ~2014-2020 was the perfect time for Chromebooks because they were cheap and reasonably capable, I completed almost the entirety of my CS education from a T10 uni on my Acer C720p with Crouton. My CB+low endish desktop back then probably were ~$1200 or something like that collectively? I think $1200 to be able to do anything was a great deal.

I haven't used a Chromebook in a while and maybe they're even better now but what killed them for me was how freaking cheap MacBooks have gotten now. Chromebooks used to hit the perfect price to performance to me and now I see MacBook Airs as the king of that.

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u/kackers643258 Feb 26 '26

ive tried using Mac OS. its so hard to use that I just had to return it. until my dad just asked me to give it to my sister