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Is Google’s Chrome OS Good for Linux?

The number one reason Linux has not gained as much ground on the desktop as I think it could is simply that it does not always work out of the box and this is is due to the lack of driver support for standard peripherals. Most of the time Linux gets drivers for products much later in the devices life and by that point something better has come out that you want to use, be it a graphics card, sound card, wifi card, printer etc...Vendors don't see it as been worth while to invest in releasing Linux drivers along side Mac and Windows, because the returns are not significant enough.