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Sadly ChromiumOS still requires Google. ChromeOS to me feels like an attempt to make laptops more like smartphones. The security is there to protect what's running on your machine from you than you from bad actors.


I feel a bit similarly. I'm torn these having very cool and interesting security properties but this way of using computers, for a lack of a better description, is just not what I'm after.




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