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  • Chromebooks are the answer to the question: “What’s the point of an operating system if I do everything through my web browser anyway? Why not make a computer that just opens a browser?”

    Your choice of distro is probably less important than your choice of DE. Chromebooks vary quite a bit in their specs–many are low-end hardware, but some are quite impressive. With decent hardware, I’d recommend Mint with Cinnamon DE as a good starter. For lower specs, you could try Debian with XFCE.





















  • As far as I can tell, yes. I signed up for the free tier before paying for the service, and the worst I ever got was a banner here or there advertising their paid service. Proton encrypts all your data with your password, so they literally can’t access it even if they wanted to. The only info they have on you are things like when you logged in and your IP address (and I believe they’ve turned that info over to law enforcement when required, like any legitimate company would have to do), but their servers are in Switzerland where there are better privacy laws.