“Cloud” means “somebody else’s computer”
I’ve got a PC with gigabytes of Ram and Terabytes of HDD, why do I need “the cloud” at all? I’ve got enough resources to be completely independent, why would I deliberately ignore that in order to have Google as my landlord?
I’m really pleased with the “Ghost Spectre” re-imagined version of Windows 10. They disabled all of the Microsoft telemetry and surveillance and figured out how to defer their forced update scheme until Dec 31, 2049.
Of course this was done for “professional gamers” to stop Microsoft and other bad actors from stealing all the computer resources to run their spyware, “Chrome OS” is 100% spyware: everything you do is given directly to Google spies to examine at their leisure.
Plus I’ve become a fan of Abandonware, I can download and run Photoshop Elements 9 from archive.org for nothing, same as Adobe Acrobat XI Professional (with the OCR functionality). They can’t even report back to Adobe my activities since Adobe shut down all their old servers in a bid to isolate users. My newest PC is 5 years old, most are about 10 or older, and can boot an M.2 NVME right off a PCIE slot with nothing more complex than a Clover Bootloader.
The best part of Ghost Spectre is that they blocked Edge completely (without even having to install the “DoNotUpgradeToEdgeWithChromium” registry key), plus I offloaded the Internet Explorer 11. I guess I’m pleased with my Mozilla Firefox browser, at least it’s not the resource hog that Chrome is, or one of Microsoft’s surveillance apparatuses.
I have never once even considered using any Chromebook, even if it were free. No thanks, man!