I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

hmokiguess

Chrome OS? No, thank you. I'll stay with macOS and keep hoping for the Asahi Linux dream

leecommamichael

Death to liquid glass!

sermah

TL;DR: The author traded a full-fledged workstation with “Liquid Glass” for a web browser with a keyboard.

KillenBoek

Author admitted he did nothing worthwhile that justified a full fledged workstation and adopted a tablet with keyboard. As a Mac user I was pleasantly surprised when I switched to a arch Linux based distribution.

loloquwowndueo

Good Lord, what next? “I switched from Mac to Windows and you can too”? Might make sense if the Chromebook can be degoogled and set up with a clean Linux distro. Barring that, a regular laptop with Linux may be an option.

internet2000

Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

_imnothere

I can't think of any valid reason for a person with sane mind to do this. Yes, macOS is somewhat closed, but it's definitely more open than ChromeOS.

steviedotboston

I mean I could. I could also do fent. But I don't.

wildekek

I don't really get what the problem with MacOS is. It never gets in my way, so why would I switch? Yes, I found Liquid Glass ugly and two days later I completely forgot about it.

bak3y

No, no I can't.

coredog64

I actually tried this last year and the show stopper was Citrix. The version for Chromebooks is some abomination that hasn't been kept recent and so fails validation with my employer's Citrix infra.

fg137

Sounds like the author could have used just about any laptop in the world and it would serve him well. So, what's the point of the article?

xacky

Might become more interesting if the Android powered laptop rumors are true.

egl2020

I went the other way: from a Pixelbook to a Macbook Air. I mostly do SW development in the CLI, so the Linux subsystem on the chromebook was fine, as is macports/homebrew/etc. on the mac. I would still be using the Pixelbook if I could have replaced its battery. The low-end Air had good price-performance tradeoff, and the Neo would probably be today's choice.

bruki

Ragebait pandemic spread here too?

shibaprasadb

I am not very tech-savvy, mostly into Analytics - DS. I love my Mac. The whole UX is far superior compared to Windows or a Chromebook.

hilti

Just look at the submissions from the "speckx" account and you get it. In a nutshell: don't waste your precious time.

curtisblaine

> - If you rely on / heavily use AI tools, you can easily use Claude's Web App etc so that's super cool but also things like Jan also exist for Linux and I haven't tried, but you can use that as well for a more native experience. Sure, Claude Web App is an adequate replacement to full-fledged Claude Code, and then there is also something that I didn't bother to try but maybe you can try it after you bought a new laptop. What the hell.