True, Chrome OS will have it’s problems as to be expected, just like everything else does when newly released. And as expected like all other OS, improvements will be needed down the road.

However, the unfair reality is that unlike OS X and Windows, Chrome OS will never need to maintain high expectations, nor ever feel the urgency of redemption now being sought by Windows thanks to the failure of Vista.

All Chrome OS needs to do is work, period.
Anything after that is solely based on whether or not it fits the needs of the individual who is considering it.

And let us not forget that the origins of OS X was also derived from a bunch of monkeys slinging code; rolling under the moniker of Nextstep; by way of BSD.

If you are doing computationally expensive operations and having issues with newer hardware not performing faster it is not the O.S. that is to blame, it is the application you are running.

And if you NOT doing computationally expensive work, then computers have been fast enough to outpace the user for years without needing an upgrade for any current O.S.

In the applications space for all the stuff Linux applications leave out that you complain about in other operating systems, how is it that they are still markedly slower than their Windows or OS X equivalents?

OpenOffice.org looks and feel likes MS-Word 5.0 for DOS running in VGA “WYSIWYG” mode. Only MS-Word 5.0 ran fine on a 286. Try that with OpenOffice.org.

Modern tools and frameworks increase the code size but reduce the development time. If you built applications of today’s complexity using hand-optimized, target-specific native code, you would either never finish them, or never be able to recoup your development costs because you would have to charge 20x what the market would bear for simple software.

Of course, for the Linux crowd, the standard response is “If you don’t like it, write it yourself” … seems perfectly applicable to me.

Speed is one of the number 1 reasons that I like Windows 7 over Vista. It’s still too big, but at least its faster. I am still waiting for games to go to Linux, because I HATE having to still use this ill-designed OS, Windows. Windows has made huge strides, but Windows still has the majority market share, not really because of its merit, but because it has come on the nearly every computer in the market (with the exception of Apple’s, of course), and alternatives have been squeezed out.

I want a lightweight operating system, without legacy cruft, that is designed to be changed in the future, without things breaking because of security upgrades, like has happened with XP SP2, and Vista, because the security layers that should have been there to begin with, were added only after repeated years of widespread virus attacks. I’m tired of bloated libraries (.NET, Java, Python, VCC runtimes, ect.), programs that span gigabytes with unnecessary languages, and programs that were otherwise lazily programmed, because you had to stick to a release date.

I’M SICK OF THE SOFTWARE WASTING THE HARDWARE!

I did say before that I was fairly tolerant of slower hardware, and I am, as long as I know its slow because of the hardware, and not because of the software.