Chrome OS is popular in schools, so it has a disproportionate market share, kind of like Apple did back during the IIe/IIc days - schools loved them, so there were a lot of them "out there." I have some family members that gave their kids a Chromebook, because they don't know enough to keep a real machine free of cruft, and the kids aren't smart enough not to fuck them up. Chromebook you just wipe and go. I am sincerely considering getting one for my father, because he's the same way. All he needs is a browser Jootoobs.