I don't think this is going to help at all. There are already way too many desktops for Linux and none of them are pushing GNOME or KDE to keep up. To me this i

I don't think this is going to help at all. There are already way too many desktops for Linux and none of them are pushing GNOME or KDE to keep up. To me this is just another one to add to the pile sadly. We already went through this whole song and dance with Canonical and Unity and that ended up dead as well. ChromeOS (and Android) are their own things and not related to any of the other projects. If somebody was building a new desktop and had a few hundred million dollars to spare I would say just do that similar to how Google did it. A company with those resources would be wasting them by involving itself with the open source desktops, those projects are perpetually in a state of being 5-10 years behind. Of course that means they would have to bring their own app ecosystem too.