Hello,
On 18 January 2013 08:16, Robert Kehl rk23@fsfe.org wrote:
I'm not sure you understand that I will install debian on this...
For sure I did.
I thought you might have been ignorant, but now I have to agree with Hugo. Your tirade was counterproductive and useless.
You did see the smileys? Calm down, Hugo, no need to get angry. Supporting Google is nothing we should do, and numbers count, even if you do not use Googles software. So, one should not buy Googles products if possible.
That attitude is, of course, also counterproductive. One shoult not support Google's products that are non-free or market leaders. However, getting subsidised hardware and then not using Google's OS on it is actually harmful to Google's attempts to produce half-free software compilations branded as OSes.
Furthermore, I would like to point out that Google supports several Free Software organisations (including FSFE), a lot of FS development by providing Google Code infrastructure and offers quite a few FS packages; thus, Google is not by far the worst option.
Also on the pro side, one can be pretty sure that GNU/Linux has the hardware support necessary to keep the Chromebook nicely running. Not many systems guarantee that. Personally I am using a 15.4" Asus laptop that is going to turn 4 soon and that laptop has better wireless support on Windows (not that I have it installed) than GNU/Linux.
Cheers,