What do they get from that?<p>I don&#x27;t think they want to compete with chromeOS, I think they want to sell chromeOS.<p>The only person who would benefit from that is you which is why people buy them and install ubuntu.<p>I use a chrome book for my daily driver.  I used to want a ubuntu machine with chrome but after a little effort and getting a setup of crouton that works for me, I actually just want a browser with a shell.  Which part is primary and which is secondary is really semantics when I get to working.  I do everything in the browser or the shell with the exception of password safe which is an android app run inside the browser.  I&#x27;d also like the android kindle app but that is blocked form working for some reason (I believe on amazon&#x27;s side).