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The author used a deliberately confusing title to make the point that ChromeOS should be considered as a Linux OS rather than a distinct category. The actual st
by olalonde 3y ago
The author used a deliberately confusing title to make the point that ChromeOS should be considered as a Linux OS rather than a distinct category. The actual stat is "Linux (excluding ChromeOS) has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market".
- lnxg33k1 3y agoI feel that it could have been made clearer by writing "GNU/Linux has nearly half.. [etc..]", maybe?
- pantalaimon 3y agoBut ChromeOS is also GNU/Linux
- xeromal 3y agoThat's not a joke though and the whole point is made with the weird title
- RealStickman_ 3y agoNo, that would exclude Alpine and I don't know any purist claiming that Alpine isn't Linux.
- ghaff 3y agoIt's The Register being pedantic and a bit argumentative. There's a reasonable argument that Chrome OS is Linux--or at least more so than Android is. But it's not so much that it's "the wrong kind of Linux" according to purists as the article says but that it mostly addresses a different use case than installing Fedora or Ubuntu and therefore, IMO, it generally makes sense to treat them separately unless your point is that some form of Linux (and *nix generally) has a pretty large market share on both desktop and mobile.
- tssva 3y agoI'm not sure it addresses a different use case than Fedora or Ubuntu. Fedora and Ubuntu on the desktop are likely mostly used for internet browsing and productivity applications. This is the same for ChromeOS.
- asdigonationio 3y agoThe ChromeOS use case is a strict subset of the use case of a normal Linux laptop. There is nothing stopping you from treating an Ubuntu installation as if it's as limited as a Chromebook. It's every bit as lightweight and can be every bit as locked down.
- yencabulator 3y ago> can be every bit as locked down I've never seen the security stuff from ChromeOS be ported to live outside of ChromeOS. When I looked at it (trying to build the inside-container agents for acustom container image), the error messages for setting it up incorrectly were.. let's charitably say hard to understand. I doubt anyone outside of ChromeOS developers understands it, really. It's pretty intricate, e.g. giving Wayland access to virtual machines in a safe way.
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- _hypx 3y agoPretty soon, SteamOS will be separated out. Then Linux will makeup an even smaller portion of the "desktop Linux market."