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by brador 3966 days ago
Not for gaming (yet! vulcan will change that), but for everything else I think it's absolutely ready. It does internet perfectly through Firefox, and libre office for document things, plays all file types through VLC, and it's free and can run securely right off a USB stick. What else do I need a computer for? Apps? I have my phone for that.

Once it gets increased adoption more niche and paid for software will naturally migrate.

I say this as a Linux hating Windows lover who lasted 3 hours before reverting Win 10 back to 8.1 on my gaming machine and changing my wifi password, and I plan to never go to Win 10 or any Windows products again.

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I hear this for last 15 years, and few things changed. Showstoppers - 100% compatibility with Office will probably never happen, which is deal breaker for most business customers actually paying for licences. second issue is device drivers. users don't care who-what is responsible, they just want to see their strange printer working with scans. Again, in many cases not there