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Is there an adjacent OS to ChromeOS Flex (not other Linux distros) that is independent of Google, like there are custom ROMs against Android? I came across Fyd
by dartharva 3y ago
Is there an adjacent OS to ChromeOS Flex (not other Linux distros) that is independent of Google, like there are custom ROMs against Android?
I came across FydeOS (https://fydeos.io/ https://fydeos.io/) but it doesn't look like a community effort, rather a commercial product based out of Beijing.
- xnx 3y agohttps://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/
- prmoustache 3y agoWhat would be the incentive compared to say, run any linux distro? The only time I tried chromeOS, I didn't find anything outstanding and the UI wasn't particularly ergonomic.
- afavour 3y agoProbably fair to say you're not the target market for ChromeOS. Neither am I. But I put it on an old laptop for my mother in law and she loves it. It never breaks, it updates automatically without her knowing and if the hardware ever does fail we can install ChromeOS on a different machine and she'll pick up right where she left off, because all user stuff is mirrored in the cloud.
- prmoustache 3y agoThat's all nice and all but you are talking about ChromeOS, not what would be a an independent fork/build from oss source code. You'd most probably lose the automatic cloud mirroring for a start. Most linux distros provide mostly unattended updates anyway and immutable ones like Fedora Silverblue can silently install them as well without the user knowing about it.
- dartharva 3y agoWeb-first UIs, although not commonly appreciated (including by me), on a stable, immutable base system do have their own practical advantage in many cases, especially in commercial or organizational setups.
- niutech 3y agoYes, OpenFyde.