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Re: Software Junk

I submit that there are several things that contradict you.

[1]

As I linked in the article, the default support lifetime is 6½ years:

https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/22/buying_a_chromebook_dont_forget_to_check_when_it_expires/

For a rock-bottom price bracket, cheap consumer laptop, 6 years is a pretty long time. I suspect a great many of them will be clapped out or broken by then.

[2]

They won't suddenly stop work working. They just stop getting OS updates. They may continue to get browser updates for a while.

[3]

Secondly, as the ChromeOS Flex article I linked to also points out, it *is* possible to "root" most ChromeBooks and install your own OS. If you do that and install ChromeOS Flex, you get OS updates again.