Google Chrome OS

[E6600]

Originally Posted by 06nbarnhill

Anyone have details on the Chrome OS?

Honestly I have waited for years to dump my shitty window's PC's...but I could never afford a mac. Maybe google will save me from the painful pit of despair that is the M$ operating system.

You can always buy used or refurbished a mini is $599 new.

Now I dunno what's your expectations for Chrome OS, but from my experience of it, it is just Chrome as in just a browser. You log into the browser and that's it. Just imagine having nothing but Google Chrome running.
You can find an ISO image of Chrome OS somewhere, just install into into a VM.

Chrome has extensions and it is said it'll be able to run native code, we'll see how that turns out.
But don't expect video games, or stand alone apps.

[06nbarnhill]

bleh lammeeee

someone needs to knock M$ out of the OS business imo. I hate their system.

[lol_pc]

Originally Posted by 06nbarnhill

bleh lammeeee

someone needs to knock M$ out of the OS business imo. I hate their system.

What's wrong with Windows? Seriously, Vista was probably my least favourite version and still it was an ok OS and Windows 7 is just fantastic, it runs great!

Mac just doesn't feel right, but then again I grew up on Windows

[rbbdrooger]

Allright, that's it for me. I'm gonna get out of this topic before the Mactards set it on fire. How DARE you say Windows is even ok?

[E6600]

Originally Posted by lol_pc

What's wrong with Windows? Seriously, Vista was probably my least favourite version and still it was an ok OS and Windows 7 is just fantastic, it runs great!

Mac just doesn't feel right, but then again I grew up on Windows

I've been using Windows all my life, yet Vista and 7 feel very foreign to me. I'm not feeling any of the changes Microsoft did to the UI. I don't mean the looks, but I mean where they decided to put the controls and the like. How the rearranged stuff makes zero sense to me, and I hate the new 'Libraries', I don't want all my images in one place!


Then again I'm a biased mactard and my opinion is wrong.


Thankfully, we have options when it comes to OSes, everyone can use what suits him best

Windows, Mac OS, a GNU/Linux distro, *BSD, Solaris, Haiku, etc... Most people don't know they have more than 2 choices.

What I love most about FOSS is I can choose the WM and DE I like. My WM of choice is Fluxbox.

Originally Posted by 06nbarnhill

bleh lammeeee

someone needs to knock M$ out of the OS business imo. I hate their system.

That wont happen! Microsoft has the OS market for itself. No one has the capacity to knock them out. There are others, but the others have about-ish 10% of the market.

The only way to knock out Microsoft is pretty much like how IBM was knocked out. A new technology, or paradigm shift that makes desktop OSes irrelevant.
Microsoft is irrelevant in the Web, portable media players, consumer electronics and smartphone market. Here's to hoping the desktop goes the way of the mainframe.

[rbbdrooger]

Originally Posted by E6600

Then again I'm a biased mactard and my opinion is wrong.

This should be in your signature.

[E6600]

Originally Posted by rbbdrooger

This should be in your signature.

I'm no Andrew Grove and quoting yourself is so egocentric.

[domokunrox]

I like my current Ubuntu build too much to change it into the Chrome OS right now.

The steps and instructions to convert it is just too complicated for my n00b Linux skills.

[E6600]

Convert it?

Chrome OS is more of its own OS. Just download the ISO, burn it and install. That what I did.

* I skipped the burn part, because I installed it into a VM

[Mr.bomb]

Originally Posted by JCRCrasyz

I'm using it now, damn this is fucking fast!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, epic fail.

Originally Posted by 06nbarnhill

bleh lammeeee

someone needs to knock M$ out of the OS business imo. I hate their system.

knock them out? That would have to take years. centuries.

Originally Posted by E6600

I've been using Windows all my life, yet Vista and 7 feel very foreign to me. I'm not feeling any of the changes Microsoft did to the UI. I don't mean the looks, but I mean where they decided to put the controls and the like. How the rearranged stuff makes zero sense to me, and I hate the new 'Libraries', I don't want all my images in one place!


Then again I'm a biased mactard and my opinion is wrong.


Thankfully, we have options when it comes to OSes, everyone can use what suits him best

Windows, Mac OS, a GNU/Linux distro, *BSD, Solaris, Haiku, etc... Most people don't know they have more than 2 choices.

What I love most about FOSS is I can choose the WM and DE I like. My WM of choice is Fluxbox.




That wont happen! Microsoft has the OS market for itself. No one has the capacity to knock them out. There are others, but the others have about-ish 10% of the market.

The only way to knock out Microsoft is pretty much like how IBM was knocked out. A new technology, or paradigm shift that makes desktop OSes irrelevant.
Microsoft is irrelevant in the Web, portable media players, consumer electronics and smartphone market. Here's to hoping the desktop goes the way of the mainframe.

IBM isn't knocked out.