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I know everyone is doing the "use Firefox" thing, but please remember that Acer alone sold almost a million Chromebooks globally in 2023.
Sure, many of those people probably weren't going to use it anyway, but plenty were. I installed it on my daughter's Chromebook that she was forced to use for school.
I'm pretty sure you can install Firefox on those too can't you?
Looks like you can, but if you have an older Chromebook (which most schools definitely have), it takes more work than I think a lot of people would be willing to do.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/chromebook/
Also, at least in the case of my daughter's school Chromebook, the Play Store was disabled.
https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chrome_OS_devices
Sorry... are you suggesting people install Linux on their kids' school Chromebooks? You know we don't own them, right?
As long as you reset them before returning them it should be ok ;p