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What do you want ChromeOS for that you can't do from a proper Linux environment?
by Nullabillity 9y ago
What do you want ChromeOS for that you can't do from a proper Linux environment?
- ISL 9y agoChromeOS does a great job of providing the hardware interface layer. Furthermore, connecting to a projector on ChromeOS is way less fiddly than fighting with xrandr. (n.b. I've used Fluxbox as my WM since ~2002. Newer interfaces in the Ubuntu strain of things are probably easier/smarter.)
- Nullabillity 9y agoBoth KDE and XMonad have Just Worked for me when I have needed to connect external displays. No manual xrandr fiddling required.
- lathiat 9y agois modern linux any better at configuring displays than my 2002 era WM environment? i lold.
- simonh 9y agoA system usable out of the box by non-technical consumers, as an alternative to a Windows or Mac laptop, or an iPad. People used to say the same sort of thing about the iPad. You could put Linux on a tablet for half the price. Yes, but only 1% of the population would be able to use it. Of course Pixels aren’t aimed at ordinary consumers though. They are high end devices aimed at developers, because Google wants to support an active community of highly skilled and capable developers working on apps for the chrome book, or at least ensure that their cross platform web apps are Chromebook compatible and take advantage of the platform’s features. They’re much more likely to do that if they have a Chromebook they actualy enjoy using and do dev work on, rather than just having an extra low end device around for testing.