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Chrome OS allowed this even before 2020. So you could open Linux (even GUI) and android app right next to each other... Had whole JS dev workflow/toolchain run

Chrome OS allowed this even before 2020. So you could open Linux (even GUI) and android app right next to each other... Had whole JS dev workflow/toolchain running on that ( did not want to clog my main computer with that ). Problem with mixing apps is that for some you have to use mouse/ stylus because their GUI was not meant to be touched.

modeless 1y ago
It's a shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android instead of the other way around. IMO in many ways it had better foundations.
- ignoramous 1y ago
  > IMO in many ways it had better foundations Security-wise: True; but Android is a gigantic yet well-oiled ecosystem at this point, from silicon designers to manufacturers to vendors to developers, running on handhelds to TVs to wearables to gaming devices (including AR/VR consoles). > shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android ChromeOS had a decade but Google is wise focus on just one desktop platform. I don't think it should surprise anybody that a platform with 3bn users & 2mn odd apps won out.
  - cj 1y ago
    Using android on a laptop with a keyboard and mousepad was always an awkward experience. It's kind of like trying to use an iPad as your main computing device. Similarly bad experience. Hopefully they work on that.
    - stuaxo 1y ago
      Similar with a keyboard and mouse with Android TV - I thought it would be useful for YouTube searches etc, the UI is so ill adapted to keyboard I gave up. It's always funny charging my phone off the USB C for my monitor, nudging my mouse and seeing a pointer appear on the screen though.
pjmlp 1y ago
Partially, it still has lots of issues that were never fixed. https://chromeos.dev/en/linux https://chromeos.dev/en/linux https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-linux/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo... https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guides/containers/containers-and-vms/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guide... Note specially the parts of WIP, missing features, to be yet done, and so on.

modeless 1y ago

It's a shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android instead of the other way around. IMO in many ways it had better foundations.

ignoramous 1y ago
> IMO in many ways it had better foundations Security-wise: True; but Android is a gigantic yet well-oiled ecosystem at this point, from silicon designers to manufacturers to vendors to developers, running on handhelds to TVs to wearables to gaming devices (including AR/VR consoles). > shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android ChromeOS had a decade but Google is wise focus on just one desktop platform. I don't think it should surprise anybody that a platform with 3bn users & 2mn odd apps won out.
- cj 1y ago
  Using android on a laptop with a keyboard and mousepad was always an awkward experience. It's kind of like trying to use an iPad as your main computing device. Similarly bad experience. Hopefully they work on that.
  - stuaxo 1y ago
    Similar with a keyboard and mouse with Android TV - I thought it would be useful for YouTube searches etc, the UI is so ill adapted to keyboard I gave up. It's always funny charging my phone off the USB C for my monitor, nudging my mouse and seeing a pointer appear on the screen though.

pjmlp 1y ago

Partially, it still has lots of issues that were never fixed. https://chromeos.dev/en/linux https://chromeos.dev/en/linux https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-linux/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo... https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guides/containers/containers-and-vms/ https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guide... Note specially the parts of WIP, missing features, to be yet done, and so on.