Chromebooks started out all about simplicity.

Lately, though, they've gotten kinda complicated.Maybe it's an inevitable side effect of growth — or maybe just the piecemeal manner in which Google's Chrome OS platform has expanded — but Chromebooks today have so many program-running possibilities, it's damn near impossible to keep 'em straight.

The computers can still run web apps, of course, just like in their earliest days, but they also now support the similar-looking-but-more-powerfulprogressive web apps, the on-their-way-out-but-still-present Chrome apps, the familiar-from-your-phone Android apps, and even the clunky-but-capableLinux apps.

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