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date = "2019-01-07T12:15:50-07:00"
title = "12 Months of Chrome OS"
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For the last 12+ months, Chrome OS has been my daily driver. And for the most part, it has treated me okay for all that time. Recently, some issues have cropped up.
I have successfully used my <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="PixelBook (opens in a new tab)" href="/category/os/chromeos/pixelbook/" target="_blank">PixelBook</a> in my day to day life doing things. Telecommuting to work a few days a week. Taking online training for work. Doing basic <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="photo editing (opens in a new tab)" href="/category/photos/" target="_blank">photo editing</a>. Talking with the family whilst <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="traveling (opens in a new tab)" href="/category/travel/" target="_blank">traveling.</a> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="and helping launch a great father/child program (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.katorination.com/" target="_blank">Helping launch a great father/child program</a>. I can run Linux apps, android apps, commercial apps, in addition to web based apps. It has been great.
And, the hardware is awesome. Thin, light, and has a battery to last all day working on it unplugged. The screen has served me well .
My problems started to come in one of the strengths of the platform: the automatic updates. Chrome OS will automatically download in the background any updates to the apps (besides the Linux apps, but I can deal with that), and will either install them and let you know in the case of apps, or will let you know that an OS update is ready, and I all need to do is reboot.
This is great, when it works. For most of the year, the OS updates came at a reasonable pace. They also added new features and fixed bugs without changing things on me without warning. However, this fall, the updates started getting few. I found odd since the PixelBook is the Google flagship for Chrome OS. There were even a few updates which skipped the PixelBook.
Then the last one hit, and performance took a dive. The worst part is, it is only sometimes. Sometimes I will move the mouse, and it takes a few to catch up. Video is choppy. Switching tabs or to a different app might take a few seconds. And no word from Google when the fix will come.
The performance issue would not be enough for me to stop using Chrome OS as Google does have a good track record of fixing things. Without any news on when it will be fix, I may have to start weighing my options.
The area this is really impacting me is my photography work-flow. As I <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="mentioned last time (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.duckland.org/2018/12/a-look-behind-and-a-look-ahead/" target="_blank">mentioned last time</a>, I am trying to get back into photography a bit more seriously and the lag makes it hard when I am trying to process more than a handful of photos.
My main concern for finding a replacement is to find a laptop of similar specs as the PixelBook, preferably without paying serious money for it.