Originally posted by RedAmnesia
I think that we all agree it's time for Mozilla, Google or other big companies to launch their own operating system to compete with the monopoly of Microsoft.
Google chrome is doing great and so fast and light on all my PCs, it's amazing for slow connections too.
Microsoft is playing unfair games and no one can stop them till now.
A Mozilla OS, I would use. A Google OS, I would run away from, screaming as I went.
Google has a great search engine, but ever since I made the mistake of installing Google Desktop junkware a few years ago, I've been mighty leery of Google software. Discovered through my security setup that it was tracking my every move, rummaging through my hard drives, and then phoning home with "something".
Same for their handy-dandy toolbars. I avoid 'em like the plague.
If they do that with rinky dink little programs, imagine the possibilities with the computer under the control of an entire Google OS.
I run a n XP/Ubuntu dual boot box. Linux is great, once you take a few days to get it set up right (took me about 4 days just to get the video right - resolution problems. Everything else was good from go.), but if you have to delve into the directory structure to fix a program problem, you're on your own. Mine tells me on a regular basis that I can't add this or zap that because I don't "own" that folder. The problem there is that no one else uses it, so who else could own it? The ubiquitous "root", that's who.
If I could just convince Linux that I AM root, I'd leave Windows laying for dead in the dust, and never look back.
Maybe if
Microsoft started building decent browsers, maybe people could rely on them. - After this however, who would? 
