Chrome OS actually works fairly well, but Google’s ability to monitor what you do on any computer running Chrome OS—no thank you!!
You’re right: “ANY computer running Chrome”. That translates to a LOT of point-of-sales stations. So whether you want it to or not, no matter how far we remove ourselves from the Google eek-o-system, they’re going to have access to us, one way or the other.
Yeah, Chrome OS works pretty well. Of course it is just a google specific skinned linux build, which is probably why it works well. It is also fairly idiot proofed and updates itself on a frequent basis. The downside is there is nothing that you can do on it that is not sent back to the google servers.