They are all insane, same with Microsoft, they seem all to hate scrollbars, but IT'S AN IMPORTANT FUNCTION! IT SHOULD NOT BE ALMOST OR FULLY INVISIBLE. What about the disabled people? There should be a law against such practices, it's crazy.
I don't even know...
You know, even Chromebook users might occasionally want to use a mouse and odds are that they'll have some kind of cheap mouse that isn't pin-point accurate.
Some of the decision making that Gooble has taken just leaves me scratching my head. Take for example the scribbling-on-PDFs that HAD to be added to the 'Gallery app'. You know, I must be insane because I think it would be better to make that a built-in function of the browser, you know like the folks at Mozilla did. But, you know, my insanity tells me that would be nice to have NO MATTER WHAT FUCKING PLATFORM you're running Chrome on. I know, insane.
I noticed that when playing videos in recent version of the OS, the Gallery app's not just opening the file, it's creating a 'blob' and opening that... Perhaps it's there for opening files from some sort of cloud storage or something, but does it need to do this for local files? I'm assuming this is going to take up disk space and what-not...
Things changing ever-other-week. Is this supposed to instill confidence? Talk of going to Android. Yeah, it's not as though every few days we hear of someone sneaking something in the Google Play store that shouldn't be there. Yeah, yeah, corporations should adopt us! We're 'safer'....Chrome OS Flex is great for 'old computers'...except for those using a common mouse...
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One of most absolute disgusting behaviours to me. I HATE it when I wake up and poof, things are shuffled around randomly, colors changed, etc., it's FUCKING TOOL, not a toy! Like I got this app to turn my light on and off, they updated it randomly, and now instead of darker blue it flashes full light into my face, very nasty when I'm trying to turn the light on at night.
I've been reading up and found something even more troubling than everything else I've mentioned thus far. The fucking OS treats all local storage as cache. That means if the OS decides it needs space...Poof! I guess that's a good segue to the next point(s). No simple control over partitioning, no playing nice with other operating systems. No make-your-own partition for storage. Although, in their infinite kindness, you have been granted permitted access to flash drives.
Perhaps someone needs to sit back and think about how ChromeOS Flex need to behave a bit differently than the ChromeOS that comes natively on Chromebooks, particularly given it being touted as a 'replacement' for Windows.
Perhaps someone needs to sit back and think about how ChromeOS Flex need to behave a bit differently than the ChromeOS that comes natively on Chromebooks, particularly given it being touted as a 'replacement' for Windows.
That's kind'a scary, if accidentally yanking something, but on the other hand, it's made for average user, so, maybe that's a safe approach for them to also not accidentally yank something. These machines seem to break easy or made of cheap junk, so I guess it's good nothing is actually "stored" on it locally. On the other hand, techies, will not like it.
Heh, I've been rolling some of this over in my mind. I think they encrypt everything. So, I could forgive some of this. I could overlook not sharing partitions, although the value (in security terms) of that when you can access flash drives is dubious at best. As much as I hate to say this, dual-(or more)booting doesn't necessarily require other operating systems to have access to ChromeOS/Flex's shit.
At bare minimum, they could provide a partition for your own stuff that they promise not to delete. Phrased another way, your files won't be treated as cache. In-overthinking-mode, a tool to recover that partition in the event of disaster would be nice too. Built-in to the images for installation of new versions might be really, really nice.
At bare minimum, they could provide a partition for your own stuff that they promise not to delete. Phrased another way, your files won't be treated as cache. In-overthinking-mode, a tool to recover that partition in the event of disaster would be nice too. Built-in to the images for installation of new versions might be really, really nice.
Yeah, we're both thinking that Vanilla ChromeOS and Flex need to be a bit different. Not necessarily radically different, but some.
Yeah, now that I think of it, I believe that's why Microsoft Windows is available so cheap and Microsoft looks the other way when someone basically makes it free. Simply put, a so-called operating system that transforms the 'end-user' into 'the product' should be free. Microsoft and Google both know this. Microsoft just wanted to create the illusion of 'getting it for almost nothing' for those that still believe that things are just like before. Exchange Subscription Edition, anyone?