Tarnished Chrome
Well, I gave Chrome OS a try for about 2 hours, but the claustrophobia is pretty severe. I feel a really strong urge to minimize the browser and open a music player, or watch a video locally, but you just can’t do it. I’m not sure I like that. There are a lot fo things I like to do locally on my machine that I just don’t see co-existing with a browser-only OS.
Also, I couldn’t figure out how to load the image in VMware, so I had to use virtual box, which made it run like crap. I’m sure this affected my perception of the experience. It was also stuck in 640×480 or 800×600 – couldn’t tell which.
Admittedly, this isn’t even Beta, so I’m going to wait and see what develops. Who knows, maybe some enterprising individuals will develop some really neat and flexible extensions to the OS that meet the consumer demand that will exist there.
In the mean time, this gave me an opportunity to learn how to use VMware, which is really sweet. I’m now running Ubuntu Karmic, and that’s pretty cool. With VMW, I’m finally getting the opportunity to use linux in an environment where I don’t sacrifice everything that windows can/will do in exchange for an OS that I know little-to-nothing about.
More later after I go back and tinker some more. I’m still hopeful!
