[whyagaintango]

It is also popular in some parts of Scandinavia.

Why you ask?

As a school teacher I can see

- for ages no proper trained IT staff in schools

- I know better linux, rpi than them. Heck they read IT news from cnet.com

- managing+ security in local servers is very difficult

- money for space

- google edu is/was almost free

- HIPAA equivalent rules

- though everyone will talk and tell linux, libreoffice

- the polishing and consistency of chromeos is great (for cheap $150 laptop)

- ideally linux foundation or some one should have made a 'school appliance' but ...

[FirmwareBurner]

>- for ages no proper trained IT staff in schools

Excuse me but how the hell is this a problem in Scandinavia? Don't you guys have the best schools in the world?

Even in Eastern Europe 20 years ago we had sys-admins in schools, and we were told that Scandinavian schools do it so much bater because they fund them the way the US funds its military.

[whyagaintango]

Schools are ok. IT not ok. There is a mishmash of I hate/love google mantra. Some want to do local but most no have the skillset to run servers ZFS etc. Either some idiot in administration then does outsourcing to remote MSP that support Windows.