I'm sitting here a bit dismayed at how good this is. Yeah, sure, I've a few gripes, but still...
I got rid of a bunch of stuff. A BUNCH! Essentially trying to think of one of those people I am considering setting up with this OS. I removed/shut off the Google Drive integration too. The thing ran a bit better after having done this. To clue you in on some of my thinking, some of those 'apps' are essentially useless. A YouTube app, seriously? Opening youtube.com in the browser would do. Really though, I figured the apps would just serve to confuse the person I have in mind. That person does use Google Drive, but is already accustomed to opening drive.google.com...
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The performance boost was just enough to get me curious about what was going on in the background.
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I was annoyed to find that Extension: Office Editing for Docs, Sheets and Slides running (It does eat up a good bit o' RAM). After a bit of searching on how to remove it, I found that Google really didn't want you to. It was apparently added to ChromeOS to solve the issue of igits not being able to figure out how to open their Office docs on their Chromebook, apparently the situation was so bad, that it was a major reason people would return Chromebooks. I decided to try the thing out before seeing if I could either remove it from an install image or force it out by other means. I'm glad I did try it out, it's actually really good.
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I haven't given this a thorough vetting yet, but it did really well for the few docx files I tried. I've also creating a document by opening docs.google.com in Chrome, for whatever reason, that just feels heavy and bloated. I suspect that plugin would be way more than ample to view most documents.
The next thing I did will likely sound a bit counter-intuitive. I installed the Save to Google Drive extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... hgne?hl=en
I'm gonna encourage the person I have in mind to use this as much as possible.... To be honest, if I were gonna use ChromeOS Flex long term, I'd likely consider a very similar setup myself. Anyway, the extension is kinda neat, on your right-click menu in Chrome, it adds, you guessed it, Save to Google Drive. It also allows you to print webpages as PDF and send them to Google Drive all in one fell swoop.
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I found a couple of little oddities with the extension. For example I can save the images that come in directly in a Google search with it, even though I can right-click and choose Save As just fine, but all-in-all, not bad. I've even been providing Google with feedback. I don't bother doing that sorta thing, unless I see something of value. I'm not gonna mention the other oddity, I let Google in on that one...
I REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I, OF ALL PEOPLE, ACTUALLY KINDA LIKE ChromeOS.
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