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I find it ironic that the GNU/Linux is the one that helped make the GNU/Linux desktop less relevant by fostering web apps. Anything that is able to run a recent
by danieldk 10y ago
I find it ironic that the GNU/Linux is the one that helped make the GNU/Linux desktop less relevant by fostering web apps. Anything that is able to run a recent browser is good enough.
True, but it also boosts the non-traditional Linux desktop. Something like the Chromebook would be a flop 15 years ago.
- pjmlp 10y agoI don't consider Chromebooks a Linux desktop, because normal people don't even know what is Crouton. They only see a window manager taking care of Chrome instances, with ChromeOS specific APIs. Google can release a Chromebook without any access to Crouton, replaced the Linux kernel by something else, and no USA school buying Chromebooks would notice. Same applies to Android, specially after the Android 7 locked on linking to private shared objects.
- ekianjo 10y agochromeOS is based on gentoo.