Google’s Amazing Laptop... Hard to Recommend - Pixelbook Review
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- Hardware wise the Google Pixelbook is awesome, but is ChromeOS up for the task?
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Software engineering company : makes a laptop with great hardware, terrible software
Hyperchromatica and that company is google!! Not a idiot small company but google!!!
I still want this so I can run Linux on it.
The IO is shit. So the hardware is a polished turd in my opinion. Imagine some professional who actually needs a laptop HDMI and Ethernet as well as kesengton lock and will have to lug around dongles. Fuck that. What a waste,
It's 10mm thin tho. It can fit anywhere
Hyperchromatica lol
Man... Of all the things I never thought I would utter: *Why wouldn't you just get a MacBook at that point?*
Unless the point is to make a knockoff, these companies should stop copying apple. People who want no ports, no expandable storage, and high prices are going to buy apple products anyway and not their imitators.
Exactly.
Make fun of iPhone that has No jack
Remove jack year later
what are you talking about?
THEMrFill He's talking about Android flagship phones
so? you get the point right?
The Echelon google flagship because the android flagship is galaxy and it has a jack
eng3d That doesn't make any sense. An OS doesn't have a flagship device. If anything, the one device to show off Android is the Pixel, which uses normal, stock Android, without Samsung's additions.
2005: Using internet explorer to download files.
2010: Using internet explorer to download games
2015: Using internet explorer to download chrome
2017: Using chrome to download windows
2019: Using chrome to download chrome
Technology is so great today.
2020: Using chrome(OS) to download Windows.
Calplus 2019 using chrome to dowland ryzen i9 7980x RTX 2080 ti and 1tb of ram
Using windows to download linux
@@xXRealXx lol pissed off much? More like... Using Chrome os to install windows since Chrome os is *already* linux
@@Jebbidan Why would I be pissed?
Chrome OS is much more inferior to Ubuntu or any other distro for that matter because of compatibility.
Wasn't it mentioned in the video that you can't install Windows on ChromeBooks?
In 2021 you can sometimes get the fully specced i7 model of this thing for about $300-$450 in perfect condition -- normal chromebook territory. Great deal at that price point. I got one and love it for couch surfing, chat apps, and word processing. The bezels are a bit big, yeah, but the 4:3 aspect ratio makes up for it. Feels a lot bigger than if it were 12" 16:9.
Google trying to copy Apple in every aspect is one of the funniest things this year.
One overhyped and overpriced company trying to copy another overhyped and overpriced company. And both fall behind the competition. GG.
Mambutu O'Malley sup Marshall.
How are they copying... you're probably the k8nd of guy to say all smartphone companies are juat copying apple
Other than the price I couldn't see any resemblance between macos and chrome OS. They are fundamentally different.
What competition does apple and Google have in the smartphone market though? 🤔
David hunsinger Samsung
this product is like Open Beta in video game
Nope, OS looks like closed alpha written by student at lunch breaks. Hardware keyboard is fucking useless, it's not even alpha, it's just genuine piece of shit, that makes device unusable even if google will fix software issues (including other os support).
1200 dollar open beta
No, it's paid early access.
More like prepaid open alpha.....
Welcome to Google products... Personally I love my $120 Chromebook for what is: light web browsing, video streaming, remote desktop and light productivity. When they slap the same Chrome OS with a $1200 price tag Google is deluding itself. And its definitely not a benchmark device for manufacturers for the top end of Chromebooks like the Chromebook Pixel 1/2. They have ads for this on American Football.
No chrome book should be more than $300. Chrome os is great compared to windows, on a 200 dollar computer... also I geekbenched my chrome book and it thought I was running nougat for some reason
Derek Li chill man
Jish you hit the nail right on the head right there
@@derekli441 Kid please,go to fucking school and stop insulting people without an actual reason
Wouldn't the geekbench you used be the Android version? Of course it would think it was Nougat, that was the version most Chromebooks were using for compatibility at the time (no idea if it has updated to 9 yet).
Waitin on the punchline.
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Surface laptop not looking so bad right now 🤔🙄
Iveyyy True haha
I love my Surface Book
Both my youngest sisters have one, they're pretty great if you just take them for what they are.
Surface tablets/laptops are amazing honestly. They replaced Lenovo's Thinkpad line up for me at least with the durability, customize-able, and productivity on just about every scale.
Jitter lines
Those bezels are *HUUUUUGE* . Seriously, they look like the bezels on my old iPad 4.
Mark Spurrell *Cries in iPad 2*
og ipad with no home button and cracked screen masterrace
Nothing beats what im using rn. - Kindle Fire 1st Gen
that doesn't count in any world
Those bezels give it such a "toy-like" look, perfectly suiting the limited OS for kids.
When in doubt
Install Linux Mint
no.
I think i just might go with Hanna Montana
But Linux sucks
Linux is a very powerful OS. However, their is a learning curve that makes it 2x harder for Windows users, 3x harder for Mac OS users and 4x harder for Chrome OS users.
@@Viktor007 have you tried?
I am so sick of modern devices making more and more decisions for me. This video nails it. What do I mean? Issues like the keyboard adding extra spaces and "Typing Like This With Everything" ... or not being able to record video. Or removal of legacy keys on the keyboard. As computers have gotten faster, it's as if people in these companies think we no longer need to be able to customize, or make our own decisions anymore. My favorite laptops are from the mid 2000's (if only they were faster). They have USB ports up the yazoo, physical volume slider buttons, easy to press power buttons (some these days you almost need tweezers to press!) laptops these days are so bland and boring. And its literally hard to figure out how to type or even use video anymore. Its so frustrating.
8:00 If you have an aero 15x why isn't there a review?
TNT MADNESS probably because is still begin made
Yess
Thank you someone said that
I was goin to get that but I think I’ll get the Alienware 13
Carlos Andrade have you had any big issues with it?
You'd be better off buying a Zenbook from Asus and installing Ubuntu 17.10 on it than buying a Pixelbook.
better off getting a first gen IPOD
@@joecoopermeister you mean a iPad right 😅, an iPad right ?😟
I reached the point where i dont even care which of the ltt videos i watch as long as i see linus
I like ChromeOS but I wouldn't pay more than $250 for a Chromebook. After $250 I could just buy a cheap Windows laptop. Or for $150 - $200 you could just buy a used unibody MacBook from early 2010 or late 2009 and run the latest versions of macOS, Windows, or Linux. Plus the specs are compatible or sometimes better than a $150 - $250 Chromebook.
Carrot a 2009 MacBook is going to be terribly slow.
I bought one for $150 since I run out of computers, and I use it to work and to study at the university, of course it is not the same as using one with windows but being able to use crouton to enable ubuntu helped a lot
Nallely Galarza If you lower you expectations it'll be fine. Web browsing, and word processing work just fine. Now if your trying to edit 4K video your out of luck.
I honestly would rather have android(even non-rooted) upscaled to the higher resolution than ChromeOS. There are much better apps for android & support for android apps in ChromeOS doesn't apply to all machines and isn't very good even then, despite both being linux-based operating sytems
That's because you know nothing of Chrome OS's actual potential. It's quite amazing if you actually get to know it's in's and outs. I mean I'm running Chrome OS, Android and Linux natively, than OSX, Windows and BSD over KVM and VirtualBox. I have a LAMP server, Apache, MySQL, PHP. I can run Steam, I have emulators with over 3,000 ROM's as well replica USB game controllers for each of the emulators. I have MS Office, Photoshop, etc. running under Wine. I can connect to my firms Citrix server and stream whatever is on the Windows Server. I can edit movies using Blender and Resolve Davinci, both runing locally. In fact I can't think of a thing that I cannot do on my PixelBook.
1:38 You're welcome
0:18
You activated my Google Assistant, Linus.
8:13 "sexy peace of hardware"
Just like a gaming laptop that runs BASIC
Just as Android, I'm sure it'll get better over time... I hope. ;)
Whenever I see a chrome book using anything above an intel atom equivalent I scratch my head. Absolutely nothing on the system ever comes even remotely close to the same solar system as using those specs.
It's the equivalent of building a computer with 4 way SLI so you can play Candy Crush or PVZ. A beautiful design and good specs on something that will never use them.
That just means i can get cheap i5 based Chromebooks off eBay and put Linux on them.
And then be sad that it's i5 in name but not in quality
I put crouton on my chromebook and I run/play steam games on it using ubuntu
I understand your opinion, but I have a different take on this. I think that the Pixelbook is too far ahead of its time.
Right now it looks as if Progressive Web Apps will replace most of the native applications (not all of them or at least not in the near future). When that happens, all you need is a powerful browser and the operating system almost does not matter anymore. In this scenario, you will most definitely notice using a more powerful CPU and lots of RAM.
*@Nyxtroos* With the current input technologies (I am not saying that there will not be any new ones), I think that laptops (not to mention desktop pcs) or usage-wise similar technology (like smartphone docking stations) will not vanish - mostly due to bigger screen sizes and better text input (the differences in processing power are already getting more and more insignificant). However, you are indeed right, that most use cases will work just fine on smartphones or on tablets and that people will prefer these (because they are easier to use, way more portable and fashion statements).
Currently, web technologies are getting a lot more complex but, in the process, gain the ability to adapt to all devices supporting web browsers. An application will be more difficult to build, but developers will only need to create a single version to target all devices (independent of operating system, screen size or other limitations).
What I am trying to say is that the Chromebook or similar devices will support some usage scenarios (although probably not the most popular ones) better and therefore will keep existing.
Four years after, ChromeOS has passed iOS in market share and the large majority of professional software companies have moved their products online. Once more Google knows where the market is heading and they got there first.
I would rather have Windows 10 S than Chrome OS.
As would pretty much anyone else who wants to do actual work and not just dick around.
windows 10 S would be a pretty sweet lightweight OS if only there were some more quality apps on the windows store
thecomputergeek95 true, at least the Windows Store already has a few good apps like photoshop elements, slack and iTunes, as well as some good amount of games like RE7, Gears 4 and Forza 7.
thecomputergeek95 I'd prefer the (Surface) Pro ones.
no u wouldnt believe me i tried it and it sucks ass
$1200 let me see. The current prices are awesome for PC building.
R7 1700x - $230 (on sale)
ROG Strix X370 - $190
16 GB DDR4 3200 - $150 (fuck)
LG 27UD58 (4k IPS, Freesync, 5ms response time) - $330
RX Vega 56 (freesync, otherwise go for 1070ti) - $400 (If you time it right)
Antec P8 tempered glass ATX case - $80
Corsair RM 650x 80+ Gold fully modular PSU - $70 (on sale)
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe 256GB SSD - $125
Total - $1475 for a high end 4k gaming pc
or $1200 for a laptop that somehow manages to be even more pointless than a 13" Macbook.
good list but I would change the r7 1700x to an r7 1700
UltimateXtreme lol you can’t get gtx 1070ti with 400$. You could barely get gtx 1070 with that price
Why would you want to play on a 60Hz monitor
Linus, I agree with everything you said in this review. I still love my Pixelbook though. Definitely not for the person that doesn't have a secondary machine for heavy lifting. However, this is my road warrior device of choice.
So....2023 here, and I just picked up the i7 (7th gen) version of this with 16GB RAM and 512GB drive for a princely £229. ChromeOS is vastly improved, and the ability to transparently run a Linux VM makes this a great mobile dev machine running VS Code and . It still has around 8hrs battery life, the screen's still absolutely fantastic, and this thing feels absolutely _solid_ compared with 90% of the laptops out there. Honestly? I have absolutely no complaints other than the irritating keyboard quirks (but it still feels lovely, so I can live with the odd layout).
This laptop just looks like a tablet version of their smartphone with the similar two-tone design.
I think linus secretly owns the tunnel bear corporation, thats how he pays all those employees.
ScareCrow Jack amazon affiliate. I am pretty sure linus make a tons of dollars. he stated that youtube revenue is a small fraction of how much he earns. 5million subs earns you around 30k+ sense he uploads almost everyday and gets tons of vieews.
7:12 I think it should be "startxfce4"
I think Linus does the most honest reviews than the other tech youtubers I follow.
1200 bucks for a browser with issues.
Welcome to the future.
Well it is supposed to be better in the future.
Arefin's tech , sure man but windows laptops
Will surpass them even then too.
Pointless.. could of been (MAYBE) okay at 800$, and the option to install Windows.. but otherwise.. no. This is like a worst version of an Android Tablet.. No ty.
1200 for a tablet? LOL!!!
Starfals Price is actually worth it for a microsoft surface tablet!
Sorry to bother you, you should have said "could have" instead of "could of". It's just a friendly reminder.
"Could of" is grammatically correct too...
ak4ik "could of" is not correct grammar
Michael Rago
I could of course argue with you.
I put chrome OS on a 2007 laptop and it works great.
After 2 years, this thing is becoming more and more attractive to pick up used. Are there any fixes reported about the bugged behavior and unconventional rescaling of Android apps?
I really hope chrome os dies forever
DarkMarkison in what way does the existence of chrome os have any negative effect on your life. Just don't use it.
^
Either that or actually gets better. With windows 10 being somewhat polarizing and OSX requiring Apple certified hardware that is unnecessarily expensive and Linux having a gigantic learning curve it would be nice if google actually made a REAL OS and not a browser.
Andrew The problem is it’s a scam. It is a “computer” but can’t even fully function as a normal computer. If they are so cheap as to not include a copy of Windows, they could at least use ubuntu or some other form of Linux that doesn’t completely limit the computer’s functions like chrome os does
Chrome OS is super useful on normal Chromebooks (sub $200) machines that have 8hr batteries
While idt they will ever been good for power users they are great in schools
Just got one. It's ready. I work in enterprise IT, and this thing handles pretty much everything I have asked of it.
Did you put linux on it?
Why is this the top comment?
@@aditjindal yuyyiotube tillkujrw uut7
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Nice Phil Holland footage there hehe. He's a really cool dude and his content is awesome. Always cool to chat with on Reduser.
Anybody else think that they should've just put Android on the thing?
GreenArt4 android doesn't have the UI experience to take the place in the market that chromebooks are targeting
Andrew Huawei have a desktop mode for Android with its new mate 10 so is definitely doable in Android
or linux.
Android sucks on anything but a phone. I love android, but I have an iPad because the android tablet market is dead.
should have put windows on it.
I love how the conversation with USB-C has switched from “I hate them” to “Why aren’t they here yet”?
Love it when you do reviews that put the negatives of a product as this should be why people buy it or not anyone can say the positives it's in the normal advertising of it.
Keep up the good work.
After the tunnel bear part, I was expecting Chaco's "Here I am gonna do a thing..."
It doesn't deserve "Amazing" title. Pffffff....
just about to like u comment but saw the number is just too perfect.
"It doesnt deserve amazing title because I have no idea what ChromeOS is for, so I'm just going to talk shit on it because I cant understand that other operating systems exist besides windoze and mac, pfffff"
Ağabey seni görünce şaşırdım.
How
@@rav3ndust he's a minecraft youtuber so don't expect him to be smart
My God that Bezel makes me sick
Thank you for an honest review. Most TH-camrs act like this thing is flawless.
Say what you will, but I own this machine and really love it. I also own windows machines which ill acknowledge I need for the other 5% of tasks I can't do on the pixelbook. Just my opinion and experience. Linus makes some pretty valid points, guess you way it all up and decide if the pro's outweigh the cons, and for me personally they do.
I would install Linux Mint Cinnamon or Manjaro Budgie or Solus on Pixelbook instead of Ubuntu Xfce aka Xubuntu.
If you cant put linux on it fck it.
Nah. Red hat (or is it Fedora?) is the best Linux shell dude. I've never had any issues with it and it works well. Only complaint is that it's virtually the same even after a good 10-12 years after I first installed it
Fedora Spins.
Mint th-cam.com/video/-f_qNoYyqF0/w-d-xo.html
Manjaro th-cam.com/video/Tc101Us3l3E/w-d-xo.html
Solus th-cam.com/video/hnpsd_O1EI4/w-d-xo.html
CerealBro1 But is Fedora newbie friendly? Isn't Fedora a testbench for Redhat? that would make it not good for newbie as he/she will keep encountering problems now and then. And Redhat is not for desktop, its mainly for servers and so is Fedora to an extent.
Did an embargo lift or something? 🤔
probably, this happens quite frequently
Alcor Salvador but I've seen other videos of this already
This was released on floatplane on 15th November, one week ago. Guess the embargo lift happened around that time, other TH-camrs uploaded the video right away, but LTT waits with it so floatplane can get something.
they do simultaneous release for products that matter. this really doesnt.
My Chromebook has been my daily driver for the past few years now. Chrome OS does 100% of what I need a laptop to do. When I finally upgrade this year it will probably be for the Pixelbook. I can't see a scenario where I ever go back to Windows or macOS.
XFCE does actually have decent scaling, you can make the icons bigger and/or font bigger and/or toolbars bigger
What Linus try to say is that the computer is 100% shit and waste of money
Linus needs to make a video where google isn't holding an AK-47 at him behind the camera
pranamd1 It was a joke. Calm the fuck down.
Trying to say??? Linus is the last person I can think of right now who needs somebody to explain his thoughts for him. And what you have said is a MISREPRESENTATION of what he said, you idiot! He said it was a cool piece of hardware, let down by a lousy operating system. Don't make things confusing by talking shyat.
jbooks888 Literally who?
wot???
Linus, stop posting at midnight.
*I need to sleep*
That’s nice, 0:07 the internet explorer logo disappears
5:48 That's gotta be a deliberate burn
search + any top key = function key
WOW (the edit is the = sign)
Lets box linus
You can actually create a bios on chrome os, but it is a difficult process. It would be totally worth it to do an update if someone in your office could get that up and running. You'll also need to take the machine apart probably, because there are sometimes screws grounding a bios lock on the chrome books.
I agree with you with Chrome OS not being up to snuff. I was a beta tester for Chrome OS way back when Google was giving out the CR-48 laptops to test it. After the beta test period was over, and I could do what I wanted with the laptop I changed the bios with the bios, and loaded a full bore linux os. Even with the limited onboard storage it was much more usable, and until a couple of years ago was my go to device for what I needed/ wanted to do. It would be nice if Google would just release a full Linux Distro as Chrome OS. Give it the polish that most modern Os's have, and release it to the wild.
*can it run crysis?*
5k subs with no videos yes... it can run TH-cam videos of crysis...
No. It is not supported on chrome os.
Probably on low settings.
No
Yes if you install CrossOver by Codeweavers from Google Play or Wine Staging/PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu with Crouton or if you format and install proper Linux like Linux Mint or Manjaro and then install Wine Staging/PlayOnLinux.
But can it run Minesweeper?
Can't even do that cos not windows...
Yes. Linux has Gnome Mines.
So many reviews already, but you're the first to showcase the webcam.
THANK YOU
I'm glad someone finally showed Crouton and the ability to run linux side by side with Chrome OS in their Pixelbook review.
Do a video about the internet scandal.🤔🤔🤔🤔
TheBubonic Plague you should follow REVIEWTECHUSA I like that channel a lot I recommend for you.
Francisco Santos but isn’t it a us only thing?
1:37 that's fantastic! :-P
0:18 triggered my google home and began listing popular linux operating systems
I've gotta say, I'm digging the new ad presentation. Something about it not breaking with the rest of the video makes it much more tolerable.
I can skip the sponsor and intro without even looking at this point.
Google would sell significantly more of these Pixelbooks if they just shipped them with Ubuntu or Linux Mint on them out of the box, js
And in the meantime give linux some love :D
0:45 Linus ran out of places to put the sponsorship
The base model sells for 749 bucks which makes it a bit more compelling because a lot of these bugs have been addressed. Not to mention this Chromebook has the best specs of most of them.
Intrepid Nick now you can buy it for 500-600$ on ebay. Used but in perfect condition. I would like to get it as gift and design is all that matters in my case.
Just install arch linux on it .
Validifyed
Yeah but where are the Thinkpads with 3:2 aspect ratio screens, full aluminium bodies, convertible hinges, this thin and light?
Or save yourself 1100 dollars buy a rasberry pi and do the same damn thing.
youtubasoarus but that isn't near as powerful and not a laptop
thinkpad yoga
or solus
1200 dollar, are you sure it is not the pricing department did some wrong math?
People should make lowball offers to the sales department to make a point
I would like to see a new video of it to know if it get improve in the last years.
Is that Thunderfoot music I hear in the background? Lolz
Pause at 3:32
Bilal Khalid what they are typing
Resistance is futile! This is the future. Get use to it.😁
...only channel where i dont hate the sponsorship bits in the video....
When you gave us the answer in the intro, I press the like button.... so hard....
I use VMware to get into my work Windows machine and also Chrome's excellent free Remote Desktop to get into my Mac at home to type iMessages with my keyboard etc and any other specific app to run as well on the side.
So, this "web browser" is essentially running THREE different computers for me. My host super fast chrome machine, the MAC and my work WINDOWS.
Also many Android apps for my twitter, sports, voicemail, movie timings and on and on.
So, yeah, specs are important. As well as a great keyboard and screen and trackpad.
Lightweight, sexy, long battery life.
Annnnd...it is available for $699 currently in stock at Google/Best Buy etc... so now what about that high price point?
The fools who think just one dimensionally are not as savvy as they think.
do u wanna get a free mechanial keyboard? if reviews
the msrp was $999, and this video was released in 2017, so your argument about price is invalid, since this costs around $1000 at the time of release, and it still is $1000 even when I checked at the google store and best buy. PLUS THE SAMSUNG CHROMEBOOK PLUS CAN DO EVERYTHING THAT THIS COMPUTER CAN DO AT A LOWER PRICE POINT THAN THE PIXELBOOK. So maybe you should stop being one-dimensional then and consider other options you numbskull
It's too expensive.
what makes it so expensive, the CPU? then google need to talk to AMD about Ryzen APU.
And they have amds Apu is now on chromebooks by Acer
Crostini is a thing. Google, with Chrome OS, knows that containers are the future of operating systems. Chrome OS already has this down with the ability to use Android apps (they run in containers) and now with Crostini in Alpha we can use Linux apps, too. The beta version of Crostini will be released soon with even more features including graphics acceleration so you'll be able to install steam among other things. But even in Alpha Crostini turns a Pixelbook into a great developer machine and with the release of a consumer version of Crostini on the horizon, pixelbook will be a viable alternative to windows and mac machines. One day, we might even be able to use Windows and MacOS apps with such technology. Crostini is working on most new, intel based chromebooks.
It's made a lot of progress in a year with crostini, and more stable android support. I've been using it as my day to day driver for a few weeks and am really enjoying it now.
Do any of you get that not everyone does gaming on a laptop? Not everyone does heavy video editing on a laptop? Not everyone sits at home in front of a built PC all day? Why can't the people who just need a laptop for entertainment, browsing, and documents have a very nice well-built device? Why should I buy a Windows laptop that takes forever to update, is terrible at entertainment with a worthless app store just because it has the ability to do more features that I wouldn't even use to begin with? It'd be like me buying a Pickup truck that gets bad mileage and is slower just because I might need to haul something maybe never, when I could get a sporty car for the same price that does what I need to do VERY WELL but OH NO I'm not going to be able to haul anything with it which I wouldn't even do in the first place?? In other words, why hate on a product that you won't be buying anyways
but macOS is better in every possible way than chrome os. More reliability, more compatibility, nicer looking (IMO). Chromebooks are generally cheap and make sense as a cheap web-browsing device, because they are more reliable and outperform similarly priced windows laptops. But if you're going to spend 1200 on a laptop, ChromeOS is so far behind macOS that it just doesn't make sense.
Exactly, people who spend all their time on chrome don't need $1200 hardware, you can do the same on a $200 chromebook
Ecks Dee not everyone likes MacOS or being forced into Apple's walled garden. ChromeOS is perfectly fine nowadays, people just dont understand that because they dont know how to do their own research, they just take some TH-camr's word for it.
And no, I dont hate Mac, I have one MacBook that I use for music production but everything else (running my business, building apps, web browsing, streaming stuff, etc) is done on a mix of ChromeOS and various Linux distros.
SnowWall says who? If I have $1200 I want to spend and I choose to spend it on a pixelbook, I'm pretty sure that's my prerogative and mine only. No one else's business how others spend their money.
Branson Taylor because you're paying for a Ferrari and getting Honda parts you fucking numbskull
Shame. Desktop OS market desperately needs some real competition right now (regardless of your OS preference, I think it's fair to say that, for the average user, there isn't a good alternative to Windows, and considering the direction Windows seems to be going in that REALLY needs to change), and Google's the only company I can see pulling that off.
some linux distros are good for users(assuming they freaking actually install), but you're still limited on being able to game(even with the dedicated gaming distros)
Linux Mint, Manjaro and Solus are very good alternatives to Windows.
For games you can install Wine Staging/PlayOnLinux and for Softwares Wine works but VirtualBox or QEMU is much better choice. Also if you GPU passthrough to QEMU, all Windows games will work on Linux at max performance.
Mystic Bardock LSSGSS linux sux for most people, and for me is useless
And most stuff you talk about never ever worked for me
No it doesn't. Things are lot better now compared to many years back. Wine can even play Crysis 3 and latest Wolfenstein II. Wine can also run Photoshop CS6 which most people use.
As far as I know none of those get around the barrier of entry problem, and the fact that I've never heard of two of those further complicates the matter of choosing a distro. Admittedly, I completely forget that Wine is a thing, that at least alleviates some of the concerns about lack of software.
Although... if you can run basically any Windows program on a compatibility layer, then nobody has any reason to actually port software to Linux... meaning Wine becomes even more necessary... and then you're ultimately depending on Windows anyway... I don't know, maybe I'm just overthinking it but something about that doesn't seem sustainable to me.
I like how he mentioned the ThinkPad. :)
7:58 SHOTS FIRED ( I agree)
Can anyone tell me how VPN service like Tunnelbear (which people use for free mostly) make shitload of money to sponsor every episode of Linus???
because its not free. you get a tiny ammount free, whit horrible speeds. and have to pay like everywhere lese to actualy use it.
conchayftw private internet access is better
It ain't free couple buggs a month cheaper as netflix So u can watch popcorntime 😏
Well duh every free vpn sells your data
Just use Browsec it has no ads and works for free
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
Hahaha saw that too
If you remove the write-protect screw, you can install windows on it. You might need 3rd party drivers, but it works pretty well.
You're telling me that if I remove some magical screw that isn't related to internal hardware, I get windows 12?
0:30 - well that was a quick review! See ya next time, lol
2 videos ?
They upload 2 videos the day when the other uploaded one does not do very well.
I like Linus, but HATE this video. Chrome OS is amazing and it's all about productivity.
I've been using ChromeOS exclusively for a year now for personal and business and it's the best thing to have happened. They are very fast, very reliable, time spent working on IT problems is reduced to practically nothing. Even our telecom system is all ran through ChromeOS (DialPad.com). Our accounting software is cloud based. GoogleScripts let let us easily integrate our webservices with googleSheets and Docs to eliminate duplicated data and auto populate forms in ways that were either not possible before or now only require 1/10 the time to setup than when we used Microsoft office. The need for an IT guy to fiddle with printer drivers and permissions is eliminated with Google Cloud Print services. Everything in the office has changed. Even scanning a document from scanner is better because I put in my pin and it goes straight to my private drive account. Emailing... OMG email... Microsoft exchange was a nightmare compared to Gmail for business.. Syncing files, losing copies, finding documents, having attachments on the PC but not on the phone. Even doing presentations in the boardroom is night and day. Now the projector just has a chromecast and you can use any device, chromebook, phone, watch, w/e. Just hit the cast button, select the meeting room, boom, done, no bringing a usb stick, setting up a PC, adjusting the resolution, syncing the remote, hoping you have the version of the presentation with the latest changes. I could go on and on about how ChromeOS has made work more productive and enjoyable.
Crouton is just a distraction too, you don't need it. If you're a programmer you can put the Pixelbook in Dev mode and load all the tools in the shell without installing linux. GIT, PHP5/7, Python, GCloud SDK, Nano, the CREW package manager has you covered.
From a business and productivity prospective I'd never go back to anything else.
Anyone who says chromeOS isn't the future doesn't know how much it can do or how to take advantage of it.
I have to agree with all this, since migrating to the Chrome OS actual work productivity has increased over iOS and Win10. These TH-cam guys are not the people to review these devices because they don't do anything practical. All they do is make TH-cam videos and highlight which trendy gimmicks are present or missing.
I have a Surface, but it's throttled by a clumsy OS that is poorly outdated for cloud-based computing.
Truth is it depends greatly on your needs windows pretty much has a lockdown on serious gaming, You can game on linux and IOS however, not on the same level, or with the same reliablity that you could if you were on windows theres also a ton of legacy software that you may or may not be interested that will be supported by windows but not IOS or chrome OS
All In all, most people that make the switch from windows are simply disgruntled with microsoft for reason A or B but if you talk to anyone who is in business, or a serious PC gamer almost always youll find that windows is the perferred operating system, Options are great, but theres a reason windows is king when it comes to OS
Just adding my reply to up the count here, because I agree with everything in this thread. ChromeOS rocks! It is way better in real life than the shit fights I had to live with for many years on Windows, OSX, and Linux. This review is so far off track it guarantees I will ignore all their posts in the future, and the brands that have sponsored them; squarespace and tunnelbear.
It can actually, and it also runs PIXLR EDITOR offline which does more than I need. It's obviously not a one machine fits all, but it's WAAAYYY better than he's making it out to be and that's my beef. I get that Linus is a windows fanboy but this video is worse than when Top Gear trashed the Tesla roadster for being an electric car. Again, ChromeOS has been my daily driver for a couple years and my business is all chromeOS and it's insanely more productive. Waiting for a computer turn on makes my blood boil now because I'm used to getting things done in a couple seconds and working the first time. This dual booting thing is just silly too, you can put it in Developer mode and install packages with chromebrew so I can write code. push it with GIT and deploy it with gCloud right from my chrome desktop.
Josh Haughton oooor just download fucking google chrome.
I've been pretty happy with my PixelBook, but it definitely could have used a fingerprint sensor...
Pairing with Bluetooth devices is a bit finicky, when it works at all... I have a non-pixel phone, so tethering doesn't work.
On the plus side, I got a cool dock, and the PixelBook works with charging through it, with the the USB Audio, the USB ports, as well as VGA and HDMI out.
There was literally a pixelbook ad before this video
Just format Chrome OS and put proper GNU/Linux on Pixelbook like Linux Mint, Manjaro or Solus.
Sadly that is hard to do without some bios tweaking with something like mrchromebox
lol mac os is also based on linux
Honestly when he said 1200$ my jaw dropped. My phone is more useful? Why does chrome os exist?!?!
Chromeos is quite amazing and quicker in many ways after you get used to it. There is a lot of thing Linus complained about that really become non complaints. If I could dual run chromeos and windows on my desktop, I would
ChromeOS is fine on some 150-200 USD school machine. It just isn't an OS for something that the Pixelbook tries to be.
Nathan Fletcher you can just look up chrome os x86 or chromium os.
It has changed! Chromebooks are amazing. And with Chromebook Plus models coming out and the amazing long support. Why wouldn't you want to buy one?
Thank you so much for being honest, so nice to see that in a review now a'days. I'm also a huge google fan, but I'm glad you didn't pull too many punches.