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I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something th
by mikece 3y ago
I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?
- bombcar 3y agoPeople who want that can get any number of Linuxes - and ChromeOS exists on new devices for cheap as almost free. There's really no market there. See also: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ (Today I learned that ChromeOS is somewhat dependent on Portage from Gentoo)
- theanonymousone 3y agoI'm not sure I understand you correctly, but it seems to me that ChromeOS Flex ticks all your boxes. I use it regularly, on two Fujitsu and Lenovo laptops, neither being Chromebooks (hence your last requirement - the rest are available also in ChromeOS "proper").
- alamortsubite 3y agoSounds interesting, but I'm curious what you think the upside would be for Google.
- progbits 3y agoThere are such things: https://mrchromebox.tech/#alt_os https://mrchromebox.tech/#alt_os Crostini gives you Linux container inside ChromeOS. If you want pure Linux experience you can install whatever distro you want as well.
- tapoxi 3y agoChromeOS is a full Linux, it just runs Linux apps in a Debian VM. If you install anything in there it looks native, shows up in the application menu, draws it's Wayland/X11 UI just fine. Even Steam works. https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en You can also get ChromeOS as an ISO, but they mostly advertise it to enterprises to reuse old hardware, and not to end users. https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_uk/os/chromeosflex/ https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_uk/os/chromeosflex/