Dear Google, Please Give Me My Chrome OS Back

Dear Google looks like you forgot something. Let me remind you that first. Here is what you promised when Chrome OS was first announced.

Here is the slide from a Chrome event in 2010:

Okay, that image was to show you Sundar Pichai making the announcement. Here is a closeup of the slide so that you can read.

So, here is what you said; or what I thought you said. You will make an operating system that is simple to use and secure. You will make it so simple that it will take only a few seconds to get online and start doing stuff.

You promised to remove everything that we will no need to do that. I remember you talking about computers checking for floppy drives and other hardware that people no longer use, while booting up.

It sounded like the right thing to do and I fell in love with the idea.

It is 2019 and let me tell you what I have on my Chromebook apart from Chrome OS.

I have the entire Google Play Store. There is an Android container on my Chromebook just to run Android apps.

I can even run an entire Linux computer on my Chromebook if I want to. I could consider that as a hobbyist thing when people were sideloading it with some little hacks, Crouton and what not. Now I have it inside my Chromebook.

I even heard about a plan to add Windows into the mix. ( I heard that you cancelled that plan, did you? really?)

I know I can disable all these things, but I am you get what I am trying to say here right?

Well, I don’t hate Linux. I know what it means to a lot of people who put in their efforts for the opensource cause. I also know it runs most of the internet. Give me Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13 and I’ll be the happiest.

Dear Google. I bought my Chromebook (or bought into Chrome OS) to use a simple operating system that will let me get things done on the web, not to run an entire computer shop on it.

Please give me my Chrome OS back.