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> Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and Red Hat build if/once they get around to adding support for it They could have stopped Linux support from Chrome
by wilsonnb3 3y ago
> Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and Red Hat build if/once they get around to adding support for it
They could have stopped Linux support from Chrome at any time, or not created it to begin with. Plus there are lots of people at Google who are using Linux, not to mention Chromebooks which are built on it.
There is no reason to think that Google will kill Linux support with this or any feature.
- kevincrane 3y agoThose same employees at Google have plenty of opportunity to tell their leaders this is a shitty idea, and yet here we are.
- failbuffer 3y agoThey're not trying to kill Linux per se, it'll just be collateral damage. Only specially blessed builds of browser and OS will be allowed access to sites that use the new api. It defeats the point of the API if the user can control the behavior of the client.
- caskstrength 3y agoWell, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux). I assume OP was talking about random non-corporate Linux distro manually installed on someones PC (e.g. Arch on my Thinkpad). These won't be able to access significant chunk of the Web anymore.
- curt15 3y ago>Well, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux Specifically, ChromeOS running the google-signed, untampered, OS image