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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thats good. Dont waste resources on googles shitware.

[–] Iteria@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not good. Sometimes the only computer a kid has is a chromebook because their parents got it for them for school. I'm seeing more and people just don't have computers at all. PC isn't moving fluidly to the next generation as a result. I've told parents about steam deck hoping they'll pick that as their kid's game console, but it's not as easy as when I was a kid where you just had a computer anyway and it was about if it could play the game you wanted to play. With the indie scene that concern when away a lot, but now a lot of kids just don't have PCs

I would personally rather have no computer than a spyware infested one, but i see your point.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Having daily driven Windows (~6 years growing up), MacOS (8+ years for work), Linux (~18 years on personal and (some) work machines), and ChromeOS (~2 years, on a cheap Chromebook used while I was traveling places I didn't want to take an expensive machine), if my options were Windows, MacOS, or ChromeOS, I would 100% take ChromeOS. Even on cheap hardware, it was a better user experience than the others... Though I will caveat that with: when I had to do work that required heavy lifting, I remoted into my Linux desktop. But that was a hardware limitation, rather than a software limitation.

For people who know what they're doing, I recommend traditional Linux. For those who don't, I recommend ChromeOS. Mac and Windows are both also run by mega corps, they're all spying on users... at least ChromeOS is performant and stable.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

cheap hardware

I thought that's why you bought used lenovo thinkpads.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz -1 points 1 day ago

Chromeos is moving to android

Thats good. Dont waste resources on google~~s shitware~~.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

ChromeOS moves from a Gentoo-derived base that’s relatively close to desktop Linux to Android. Google wrote a technology that lets Linux X11 applications work with ChromeOS‘s display stack. Seems this is not a priority to be ported over.

Edit [2025-08-10]: I need to correct myself. According to https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/ support for Wayland support is in development. I don't know how much it matured in the months since that article. No idea if / how well it's supported on X86, though, which is a requirement for Steam.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a pretty big change then... They should call it ChromeOS/2 or something.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Now you've got me wanting to try and run OS/2 Warp in a VM.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?

Seems like Google moved to a new framework but X86 support may be a problem: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe they no longer intend to keep some API/Protocol compatible.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

This was a triumph.

I'm making a note here: BIG SUCCESS

It's hard to overrate my satisfaction.