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That's sad news. ChromeOS is much faster and more efficient than Android. Turning off the Android subsystem in low-end Chromebooks is a huge performance boost,
by Miraste 1y ago
That's sad news. ChromeOS is much faster and more efficient than Android. Turning off the Android subsystem in low-end Chromebooks is a huge performance boost, even when no Android apps are open.
- odo1242 1y agoTo be fair, that’s likely because the Android subsystem is a virtual machine - not running multiple sets of system services / CPU emulation on a computer will make it faster pretty much universally.
- nashashmi 1y agoYup, the android vm is too much for a chrome pc unless it’s a high end device. I can’t imagine android going faster than chrome at a native level either.
- Miraste 1y agoIt's not just the virtualization, ChromeOS has had a lot of work put into performance. The low-end ARM Chromebooks use the same hardware as budget Android devices, and they're noticeably faster. My Android phone uses more RAM doing nothing from a fresh boot than those Chromebooks even have.
- odo1242 1y agoThat’s a good point actually. Windowed app performance on Android apps is especially bad since they’re not designed for it (most of my experience is on Android-x86, but window resizing performance is not great)
- refulgentis 1y agoBreaks my heart (worked on Android from 2016-2023, ChromeOS was a revelation. Alas, Efficiency™. (as in salaries, not the things we build))