Conclusions

Flow continues to be super shiny, but I have now decided that, post winter quarter (when Lucy and anyone else who might be interested get a chance to play around with this OS) I'm probably not going to be keeping Chromium on Ivy. It isn't so much that Aviary applications tend to mysterious cause the Flash.so to crash or that for any google-linked pages, such as blogspot, there is a disturbing tendency for the browser to say "webpage not available" first, which is blatantly not true because after I click refresh one or two times the page always shows up. Those might be issues with my internet. After all, not everyone is signed on to Google as the ISP. That is not the problem.

Or rather, that is the problem.

The problem is that Flow / Chromium is a browser based OS and the performance is snappy like you wouldn't believe. The problem is that the reason for this snappy performance is due to the fact that the OS itself has essentially no apps. All the apps that it comes with you launch from the internet which (aside from the Aviary issue that I'm still confused about), is okay if your computer is a desktop and you're using it in the office all day or if you're constantly using it in areas with really good wifi. However -- and this is what broke the deal for me -- Ivy is an Acer netbook, built to be portable, and when I'm using it I carry it with me, everywhere. Most of the times there will be wi-fi I can set up. Sometimes there wouldn't. Sometimes I'm on the bus and I need to access my reading for tomorrow. When all the apps are launched from the internet, and there is no internet, there are no apps (and also no files, since the apps that you use save your files online, google-doc style for everything). I can't do anything without the internet, literally in this case with Ivy. It's more than a little frustrating. Perhaps there are other stuff I can buy from the OS store that will run internet-free, but for an OS that I'm just trying out? No thanks.

(Other minor irritations include:

sensitivity for mouse, despite of being on a sliding scale, only comes in three settings: 1, 5, or 10, and even at 10 for the image edit program there is still significant delay between motion and action.

Flow shutdown pathway always makes Chrome thinks that it was closed incorrectly and makes it offer to restore tabs.

Login has to be with your google account username (big brother monitoring feeling much?) and when there's no internet the set up has to be done through the hacker's password.

I have no idea where screenshots I took ended up.)

Think might try Fedora on this too (currently am on Ivy), since Ubuntu apparently didn't agree with it or something.

[edit 20:23]
Actually come to think of it, I might do Fedora before I leave so that way I can see how it runs on this PC and figure out whether to take Ivy or Daemon with me when I go. I'll bring the Live USB though, so people who are interested can run the OS (without installing) on their own computer and play around.