Author might:
- Note what sort of user they are, what they expect their computing environment to look like, what they use now that they're satisfied with, etc.
Because a linux developer using lots of content creation and app development tools isn't a customer for chrome os, and it never was. It's an end user run time that'll run android apps well, and some linux dev stuff.
While a fair slice of folks say that chrome os and flex are completely different, the answer is not really. While theres a separate fork for chromebooks and flex, google has brought so much of the cloudready compatibility into the root branch. All cloudready really needed was a kernel update to something made in this century. Cloudready folks were afraid to update it, as every time they tried they got more support problems than they could manage.
Similarly, let's discard the idea that it only runs on usb drives, it can in fact run fine on an internal drive.
And the one that says there's some sort of different 'experience' with a branded chromebook/box vs flex. I have boatloads of both. Other than customized drivers and perhaps a few vendor supplied bells and whistles, the experience is the same.
Last, author doesn't understand the edu market, and the reason why we use a managed chromebook environment isn't "because it's simple".
We use it because its free (outside the management tools subscription), it keeps the students OUT of the OS (for the most part, my kid still got into the command prompt), and the management tools allow a teacher to see what every student is doing, their progress, scores and so forth in real time.
Attempting to do a lot of that on another OS? Big bucks and big development.
The elegance and comprehensive approach to the management tools and ability to combine web based and android tools is really nice.
You can also get the android stuff working with flex. It takes a bit of time, but that's gotten easier and quicker. Just google it.
Speaking for myself, my setup at home resembles a small business arrangement more than a residence, with school work, work from home all the way to gaming setups. Outside of gaming, I've run an all chrome OS environment full time across every device with no problems and no ongoing "home tech support" like backups, OS reinstalls, etc.
And that was 4 years ago. Nothing new.