It may go against the "idea" or motivation of ChromeOS, but my mother ain't uploading several GB of photos and videos so that she can sit on a couch with her fr

It may go against the "idea" or motivation of ChromeOS, but my mother ain't uploading several GB of photos and videos so that she can sit on a couch with her friends and chat about that crap over a bottle of wine. Whether or not it fits with the motivation of the OS, it is what the OS needs if it wants to be something I can recommend to anybody. They are making an OS for people that, as far as I can tell, do not exist: technically inclined and willing users who have very restricted requirements. I know, I know, "most people do nothing but Facebook". That is the standard justification of ChromeOS, I've heard that all before... In my experience however those people still perform some (really quite minimal) non-intensive local tasks that ChromeOS falls flat on. I'll sooner tell those people to get an iPad than a Chromebook. And to be clear, ChromeOS does let you browse images locally, so that is already something they have consigned themselves to doing. ChromeOS isn't saying "this isn't something that you can't or shouldn't do". The problem is that they do it poorly; the UI is shoddy.