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A userland Chrome browser is what Chromebook WAS. What it is becoming is a desktop. With Linux and Android apps integrated. There are a lot of good Android a

A userland Chrome browser is what Chromebook WAS. What it is becoming is a desktop. With Linux and Android apps integrated. There are a lot of good Android apps that would be useful on a laptop. There are a lot of Linux apps that are useful on a laptop. Good security. With secure verified boot. Yet Linux apps that run in a strong sandbox allowing untrusted code. Android apps run in a different sandbox. All this is transparent to the user who sees a desktop. The Chrome OS and Android are self updating. I don't know about Linux apps yet.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
Android, again, was a complete replacement of the userland tooling developed by the community. For all intents and purposes it is a completely different system. Even Windows can run Linux apps these days. It still doesn't seem to me that that qualifies as "year of the Linux Desktop" as it is intended.
- DannyB2 8y ago
  Definitely not Linux Desktop as intended. Android is indeed quite different. Chrome OS is somewhat different. Today I use Crouton to run one or more Linux desktops (currently Ubuntu Unity and Xfce) on my Pixelbook. I've blown away an older Ubuntu 16.04 I had. Thinking about blowing away the Ubuntu Unity and keeping only the Xfce. Each Linux desktop takes about 5 GB with a few additional apps installed including LibreOffice, GIMP, Inksacpe, wxMaxima and Eclipse / Java. Using Crouton means my Pixelbook is in "developer mode" (which means rooted). I look forward to the integrated Linux apps and expect one day I will switch out of developer (rooted) mode back to normal. This is called a "power wash" on the Settings and resets everything for security and verified boot so no unauthorized code can ever execute.