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Thanks for that.
Yes I did some research. Certainly you can access Google Drive in Gnome quite easily. It works pretty well if you're online and on a decent connection.
There are third party paid tools available to do the background syncing etc if needed.
Thanks for the clarification re Chrome OS. I never really thought of it as an actual usable OS alternative to Linux as it seems too locked down to be useful.