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by thebspatrol 3338 days ago
What is the overall sentiment like for them?

I recently interacted with a high school kid that was given a school-provided chromebook that had the most inane website filters following him around, the USB ports literally disabled, and tons of hoops to jump through to accomplish simple tasks.

For such a locked down platform, you really would think they wouldn't have to pull this shit.

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Sentiment is slightly negative. Chrome OS is unpopular among techies for not doing things "real" computers can do. Login used to be very sluggish (it goes through a district SSO page, not normal google login), maybe it is better now? Don't think I've heard anyone say good things about them, but not a lot of complaints either.

The web filter is minimal (porn, pretty much), but that's just the district wifi (opendns), not the chromebooks themselves.