On 2013-02-14 10:43, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 14/02/13 15:06, jlk@??? wrote:
>> ...and it's getting even easier, ne' the Chromebook. (groan issues
>> from
>> the collective group) But it's true. It Linux Jim, but not as we
>> know
>> it. A large percentage of the MS Windows using public have waken up
>> to
>> the fact that they don't need a 8-core i7, with a 2-gig video card,
>> and
>> SSD, and 16 gigs of RAM, and a big screened retina display to browse
>> the
>> web and read their e-mail. The tablet boom-bubble has showed many
>> another way. Microsoft no longer owns the end-user experience:
>> think
>> iPads, smartPhones, BYOD at work.
>>
>
> My wife teaches at a local school, and frequently gets homework sent
> to her via email. One of the students sent her an attachment
> incorrectly, somehow attaching something called a .gdoc file. I was
> enlisted to help her attach the document correctly and took a guess
> and typed up a tech reply to her asking if it was a chromebook,
> turned
> out it was. She described it as "a new laptop my parents bought where
> all the documents are stored somewhere else".
>
> Interesting to see the youth of today using Linux, even if they don't
> know it :)
>
Great to hear that Chromebooks are starting to be used by the youth of
today. I know it's and old say, and not politically correct, but I
pleased to see a small start in removing the Microsoft nose ring from a
few of today's youth. Long may this trend continue!
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