[John7878781]

> What is the reason given for Chromebooks being used so much in US schools?

Chromebooks are much cheaper than Windows laptops.

Similarly priced chromebooks are also much more responsive than their Windows counterparts (mainly due to the OS being so optimized to run on crappy hardware). And you're right -- Linux might be a viable alternative here. But it's not like the corporate world runs on Linux.

[olyjohn]

It doesn't run on Chromebooks either...