Re: [Sheflug] Google Chrome OS

[Sean Whitton <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 15:21, Ezra Morris<epcmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What are people's first reactions to Google Chrome OS?
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>
> Looks to be quite interesting, although I've never been a huge fan of
> overly web-based stuff.

It's pretty cool how these things work, but I agree with your
sentiment. Web based stuff tends to run less well than things designed
to actually make use of the hardware you have in front of you, instead
of making it little more than input and output for someone else's
server running someone else's opinion of how your software should be
coded and patched and configured.

Wouldn't it be better to teach people how to use their computers
properly, make automated backups an easier process perhaps, than to
simply say "okay you can't be trusted and you know you can't, we'll
run it all for you and you can let your processing power go to waste"?

Sorry for a bit of a rant but the whole philosophy of it annoys me a great deal.

S

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