Latest Chromebook advertisement features Bill Nye using science to convince users to switch to ChromeOS August 16, 2019 https://mspoweruser.com/latest-chro...ence-to-convince-users-to-switch-to-chromeos/
Bill Nighy is the science guy? Looks nothing like him lol. I was going to upgrade to a better Chromebook, and was prepared to splash some spondoolies as mine is just a basic model. Reasons to prefer a Chromebook over a conventional Windows laptop 1/ It isn't Microsoft Windows. 2/ Fast boot-up time. 3/ Security. 4/ Good app development/repo. 5/ Software reliability (I've literally never had any problems with ChromeOS). 6/ It's not rubbish. Reasons not to prefer a Chromebook over a conventional Windows laptop 1/ Manifest V3. I'm writing this on a Lenovo laptop preinstalled with Ubuntu. Eventually I'll replace it with another similarly preinstalled with Ubuntu. I will buy a small MacBook instead of a Chromebook. At least I'll be free to run what browsers I want.
I noticed that there are really good back to school deals on quality chromebooks right now. I looked at getting one for my brother who has an ancient Windows 7 system. He is a bit ancient too, but does a lot of web surfing using Google. He has always been at sea on a Windows system. I thought I'd get a Lenovo S330 chromebook ($100 off, so sweet) for him, however to buy it from their website is a pain beyond all pain if one uses a blocker of any kind. uBO identifies 34 sites, all but 2 are red. Some are their partners that help with securing the financial transaction but even those are red. What a gauntlet I'd have to run to determine how many I could safely allow! Too much scripting, trackers, marketing and analytics, even a phishing site. Ordering directly from a site that has this many landmines is not worth my time. Now I'm looking elsewhere.
All sites are plagued with them, even bank ones, using anti-tracking/fingerprinting/scripts tools and extensions are worthy only if you often visit the same sites and whitelisted them. If you surf hundreds of sites a day, you will waste most of your time wondering what to block or allow. It is like using default-deny security softs, if your system is dynamic, you will waste your time as well and put "security fatigue" on yourself which at the end will become no-security by allowing everything you run.
Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close August 18, 2019 https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-or-chromebook-a-best-buy-salesman-told-me-it-isnt-even-close/
indeed 300% agree, you can play games for free by using malicious cracks, get cool ransomware, get your credentials collected via keyloggers, and if you are lucky, find a kernel exploit that transform your pc into a bot without your AV able to do anything. Silly salesmen, last time i went to a computer shop, i had to teach him about Win10 security and malware...
i don't play games anymore, but i wont trust pirated games if i were you, so easily packed with obfuscated malware, and dont talk about "verified crackers" , there is no such things.
Been playing games for the past 25 years, never gotten malware from a pirated game, never gotten hacked on a website. Malware in cracked games seem to be propaganda from the video game publishers if you ask me.
If you download it from no name sites, I agree. I've stuck to purple and green skulls on TPB and I'm safe. If anything, I find safety in knowing that DRM isn't messing with my computer. Like Securom used to do.
Five reasons Chromebooks are better than Windows laptops Windows is great for some things, but for many users, a Chromebook is better August 20, 2019 https://www.zdnet.com/article/five-reasons-chromebooks-are-better-than-windows-laptops/
Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments August 26, 2019 https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/26/google-dell-chromebook-enterprise-devices/
Wait a minute, so Chromebooks are mostly cloud based? What a joke, can't believe that people are buying this crap. Windows is still good enough, just make sure you never update it.
OK, then only update Windows when there are very serious security flaws discovered. And I already explained, Windows kernel security flaws are overrated. I didn't patch Win XP for over 8 years, not a single problem. And Win 8 and 10 are way more secure out of the box.
Some Chromebooks mistakenly declared themselves end-of-life last week Users on the Canary or Dev builds of ChromeOS got a nasty shock last week September 9, 2019 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...ly-declared-themselves-end-of-life-last-week/
My reasons are that they might break things, and as said before, I'm not that worried about security problems. Current security tools are good enough to protect against most exploits. Not to forget, browsers are not that easy to hack anymore.
Because I keep my systems updated, I don't need to use anything to protect from exploits. Of course, this doesn't guarantee I won't get infected. But I don't believe that using anti exploit software will always keep me safe either.
I'm afraid you're wrong, because zero day exploits can bypass a patched system, but it will most likely be stopped by security tools. So that's why I keep saying that security tools are more important.
As I noted, having a patched system won't guarantee that I won't get infected. But I do know that it's highly unlikely and that's enough for me.
Google extends support lifespan for seven Lenovo Chromebooks to 2025 September 25, 2019 https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/09/25/lenovo-chromebook-update-support-expire/
