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No. I mean a full-fledged alternative to the major operating systems. Do people in charge of Chrome OS say "In 5 years, we want developers, designers and projec
by RivieraKid 6y ago
No. I mean a full-fledged alternative to the major operating systems. Do people in charge of Chrome OS say "In 5 years, we want developers, designers and project managers at Google use this OS"? I don't think so - it's not their ambition to compete with Mac OS or Linux.
- kgersen 6y agowhy 5 years? They can already if they want to.
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- mav3rick 6y agoDevelopers , PMs already use Chrome OS at Google. Designers can / will also happen.
- RivieraKid 6y agoSo Chrome OS team's explicit ambition is to provide a full-fledged alternative to Windows and Linux distributions?
- mav3rick 6y agoI don't know what the ambition is. But it sure looks like it's a perfectly fine machine for developers and PMs.
- Guest0918231 6y agoThey don't say that, because that's not their goal. Google makes money from consumers being online, searching, browsing the internet, and using Google apps. It doesn't matter if that person is using Windows, Mac, Linux, or some imaginative Google OS to connect to the internet. They profit either way.
- stouset 6y ago… which is kind of his point, yeah?
- skybrian 6y agoIt's already the case that ChromeOS can run a Linux environment in a VM. The question is whether this is enough for most developers?
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- cbeley 6y agoI'm really enjoying ChromeOS for software dev. The Linux container is tightly integrated with the rest of the OS. On top of that I can run all my favorite Android apps as well, making it an excellent OS for personal use. One interesting example is that if I have a file I want to open, it doesn't matter if it's Chrome, Android, or Linux that has the executable to open it. I just click the file and it opens in the right app. I can also open it in any other apps via a dialogue that lists things I can open it with. The list shows all relevant Android and Linux apps. The app launcher is similar -- all apps, regardless of how they are run, show up together. I'm still not sure I could give up my Mac for my day job, but for personal use, I love it.
- millstone 6y agoOk, but the Linux container is completely at odds with Google's ChromeOS pitch. Google says that ChromeOS has "simple setup" - but not the Linux parts. They say you can "search anything on your Chromebook" - but not Linux. They talk about "Chrome sync" - doesn't apply to Linux. Etc. I think that ChromeOS has value as a web-browser host, and also as a development machine for vim-jockeys. What's missing is the middle part: a real desktop OS.
- mav3rick 6y agoWhat part of the Linux setup is not simple ? Turning "on" is as simple as it gets. You can search linux files and apps as usual. As for sync, feel free to look at open bugs and features and see the work being done.
- Osiris 6y agoSo you don't need to turn on dev mode and use crouton to install a chroot for Linux anymore?
- brianyu8 6y agoAnother data point: I was an intern at Google last year and they gave most of the interns Pixelbooks. It worked fine for development (granted, development consisted of SSHing into a dev box and using a web-based IDE).
- millstone 6y agoChromeOS is not compiled on those Pixelbooks.
- joshuamorton 6y agoWhile true, it's equally true that chrome os usually isn't compiled on Google employees Linux workstations either.
- dahfizz 6y agoYou don't think _Google_ has the resources for a proper build server? They're not doing builds on a dev machine anyway.
- opportune 6y agoActually many engineers use chrome OS at google. Perhaps even a majority. What makes it work is that everything you could possibly want to run either runs in the browser or in a remote machine.
- de_watcher 6y agoThe whole point is that you can't fight the old "full-fledged" OS with a new one. The aim of the Google's web is to reduce the role of the OS to the "BIOS".