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Linux community really dropped the ball by not creating a distro that was basically chromeOS, but without the propriety limitations. Thousands of distros and n

Linux community really dropped the ball by not creating a distro that was basically chromeOS, but without the propriety limitations. Thousands of distros and not the one that would take off. Sad! And now, with this announcement, the moment has passed.

janice1999 2y ago
> but without the propriety limitations. ... that would just be Linux then? GalliumOS was Ubuntu for Chromebooks (with ChromeOS patches for touchpads etc). Mainline Linux is good enough nowadays for most things. Several companies offer custom ChromeOS images with their own tools and one was even purchased by Google, but they focused on centralised management for classrooms etc.
- hawski 2y ago
  ChromeOS-like implies an immutable image with the AB partition scheme for me. Other than Fedora Silverblue there is nothing like it as far as I know.
  - luyu_wu 2y ago
    VanillaOS would be another great example (arguably cooler than silverblue imo).
  - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    There's MicroOS from the OpenSUSE corner, including its respins with GNOME or KDE. IIRC that uses BTRFS snapshots/filesystems instead of A/B root filesystems, but same broad idea.
    - leetnewb 2y ago
      Technically, the Gnome spin is now named Aeon: https://aeondesktop.github.io/ https://aeondesktop.github.io/
      - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
        And the KDE version is Kalpa, but they're both still spins of MicroOS.
- pquki4 2y ago
  I think the point of the original comment is "take off". A non proprietary ChromeOS (that is browser first, simple to use for non techy people, easy to manage) sounds like a neat idea to me, but the names you mentioned achieved nowhere near the reputation/popularity of Ubuntu. Maybe it is more about the business model. ChromeOS runs efficiently on low-cost hardware for a small license fee (?), and get almost guaranteed updates. In exchange, customers sell their souls (actually, data) to Google. Won't happrn with Linux. But undeniably it sells and works well enough for ChromeOS.
oneshtein 2y ago
> Linux community You mean "ChromeOS community", right?
yencabulator 2y ago
Unfortunately as is typical with these source-thrown-over-the-fence projects, a lot of it is just a hot mess. I tried to make a custom container that would run under the regular ChromeOS crosvm, all the "agent" stuff for e.g. transporting wayland over virtio is brittle crap that crashes with no useful error if you don't invoke it perfectly correctly. What I want is the idea of wayland-over-virtio to be reimplemented by others.

janice1999 2y ago

> but without the propriety limitations. ... that would just be Linux then? GalliumOS was Ubuntu for Chromebooks (with ChromeOS patches for touchpads etc). Mainline Linux is good enough nowadays for most things. Several companies offer custom ChromeOS images with their own tools and one was even purchased by Google, but they focused on centralised management for classrooms etc.

hawski 2y ago
ChromeOS-like implies an immutable image with the AB partition scheme for me. Other than Fedora Silverblue there is nothing like it as far as I know.
- luyu_wu 2y ago
  VanillaOS would be another great example (arguably cooler than silverblue imo).
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  There's MicroOS from the OpenSUSE corner, including its respins with GNOME or KDE. IIRC that uses BTRFS snapshots/filesystems instead of A/B root filesystems, but same broad idea.
  - leetnewb 2y ago
    Technically, the Gnome spin is now named Aeon: https://aeondesktop.github.io/ https://aeondesktop.github.io/
    - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
      And the KDE version is Kalpa, but they're both still spins of MicroOS.
pquki4 2y ago
I think the point of the original comment is "take off". A non proprietary ChromeOS (that is browser first, simple to use for non techy people, easy to manage) sounds like a neat idea to me, but the names you mentioned achieved nowhere near the reputation/popularity of Ubuntu. Maybe it is more about the business model. ChromeOS runs efficiently on low-cost hardware for a small license fee (?), and get almost guaranteed updates. In exchange, customers sell their souls (actually, data) to Google. Won't happrn with Linux. But undeniably it sells and works well enough for ChromeOS.

oneshtein 2y ago

> Linux community You mean "ChromeOS community", right?

yencabulator 2y ago

Unfortunately as is typical with these source-thrown-over-the-fence projects, a lot of it is just a hot mess. I tried to make a custom container that would run under the regular ChromeOS crosvm, all the "agent" stuff for e.g. transporting wayland over virtio is brittle crap that crashes with no useful error if you don't invoke it perfectly correctly. What I want is the idea of wayland-over-virtio to be reimplemented by others.