Windows has always felt like a necessary evil. You could switch to Mac or Linux, but until very recently, that wasn’t a real option if you wanted to play games on your PC in addition to working on it. Now, between the clunky "Show more options" context menu addition, being required to log in using a Microsoft Account and Microsoft shoehorning AI via Copilot into every corner of its OS, many of us have finally reached a breaking point.
While I’ve been experimenting with the Mac mini M4, I’m still just one botched Windows update away from saying enough is enough and installing Linux on my PC. But there’s a third option that’s always been held back by its "web-only" reputation: ChromeOS. If you've used one of the best Chromebooks before, you’ve likely felt those limitations. And the second you try to do something outside of a browser window, the "Pro" experience vanishes.
