True, but unless Google starts militarising or something the only thing they can do with my mothers data is target some ads at her. Which she will completely ignore since she will only buy things from the same 2 or 3 sites she has visited for the past 10-15 years.
Even on Steam it’s far from perfect, but it is getting a lot better and quickly too. The Steam Deck deserves a huge amount of praise for that. I just wish EAC would force their Linux compatibility option rather than leaving it to devs to opt-in. It would be nice if other anti-cheats got on board with similar things too.
My mother is technologically impaired. Her last (Windows Vista) laptop was a nightmare from the day she got it. She absolutely loves her Chromebook. All she uses it for is online shopping/banking/emails, so it is perfect for her.
I am basically the same. I’m loving the ability to use uBlock Origin across phone and desktop and practically never see ads, but some sites just don’t work for me in Firefox. Like anything where I have signed up with my Google account, or my online banking. In which case I have Chrome installed as a backup. If I could purge it completely I would, but this works for now.
I run KDE Plasma and very rarely have issues with wayland either. Maybe I am imagining it but it feels smoother than X11. I love that in wayland I can use adaptive sync with multiple monitors connected. X11 can’t do that. My main issue with it is that anything involving screenshare doesn’t work properly. So steamplay (as host, client is fine), slack screenshare (again, as the sharer) don’t work. I don’t understand all the people having issues, maybe it’s a hardware/driver thing? On my AMD GPU it is practically flawless.