A Chromebook boots in seconds, and updates itself in the background. No more long, arduous, fraught-with-peril updates done at inconvenient times. The Blue Screen of Death is a thing of the past. There is no bloatware to delete and no viruses to worry about, and thus no heavy virus-scanning software is necessary.
Smooth sailing
The hardware is generally inexpensive but pretty robust and incredibly easy to set up. However, most Chromebooks come with just 8GB of RAM, which, as I mentioned above, gets pushed to the limit when running VS Code in Linux. Finding a Chromebook with 16GB of RAM can be a challenge and disproportionately expensive, making the point less compelling, I suppose.
Of course, while I don’t want it to happen, I don’t worry about my Chromebook being lost or run over by a bus because it is quite easy to replace. The time from unboxing to being back in business is minutes, not hours like it would be with a Windows machine. While a couple hundred bucks is nothing to sneeze at, knowing that I can replace a missing or out-of-commission machine easily and quickly is nice indeed. (The downside here, though, is that the temptation to get a newer, faster, better machine is harder to resist.)
