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Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
- pjmlp 11mo agoIt will win where Longhorn and Midori failed, due to politics.
- chaostheory 11mo agoSounds like someone at Google wants a promotion…
- coffeebeqn 11mo agoLinux is better in every conceivable way
- bryanlarsen 11mo agoBoth Chrome and Aluminium are Linux, so which are you trying to say is better? Or are you saying more conventional Linux is superior? Gnu/Linux is a good term for that.
- dontlaugh 11mo agoIt’s not a great term, there is a small and shrinking proportion of GNU in most distros. Things like systemd or Wayland are far more important.
- bryanlarsen 11mo agoSystemd is Gnu licensed.
- fsflover 11mo ago"GNU" in "GNU/Linux" isn't about the license but about the GNU OS, https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoThat is not how anyone uses that term. For starters, Linux is also GPL licensed, so if it was like that then we wouldn't bother calling it GNU/Linux, we could just call it GNU. More to the point though, being GPL-licensed doesn't make something part of the GNU project.
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoGNU/GNU
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoI've actually used GNU/GNU to refer to HURD:)
- bigstrat2003 11mo agoWhen someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".
- surajrmal 11mo agoI prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.
- pxc 11mo ago> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking. What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoUbuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.
- pxc 11mo agoHuh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.
- surajrmal 11mo agopipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.
- pxc 11mo agoALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.
- bryanlarsen 11mo ago
- SirFatty 11mo agoThis is the year of Linux on the desktop!
- andrewinardeer 11mo agoAny decade now.
- pelagicAustral 11mo agotwo more weeks
- danpalmer 11mo agoIt sure is: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
- pjmlp 11mo agoExcept being able to buy GNU/Linux laptops from known brands, the same that sell Android and Chromebooks with 100% supported hardware, at FNAC, Worten, Saturn, MediaMarkt, Publico, Dixon, CoolBlue,.... It would be great, however it died alongside netbooks.
- wkat4242 11mo agoOnly the first netbook came with Linux. The Asus EEEPC 701. This was mainly because it was so underpowered it couldn't run windows (and some nonresizable dialogue boxes didn't even fit on screen). But they dropped it with later models.
- pjmlp 11mo agoAs owner of an Asus 1215B, that lasted from 2009 until last year, having gotten disk and memory upgrades during its lifetime, going through all Ubuntu LTS upgrades, bought with it pre-installed, that is certainly not true.
- wkat4242 11mo agoAh ok, here they were all windows in the shops after the first one. I can imagine also because Asus' distro was pretty terrible, it probably gave some backlash against Linux. I think the only reason they made it was to make it work on that tiny screen. I spent ages at the time trying to make macOS work. I had it booting but due to the CPU being below 1 Ghz the timing screwed up and timing related actions happened in slow motion (this was a timing divider issue not sure to the slowness itself). I even messed with the kernel code trying to get it to work. On a later Acer netbook I got it running perfectly though.
- laidoffamazon 11mo agoThe 701 did run XP, even came pre installed with it on some models in later 2007!
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- Klonoar 11mo agoArguably not in security model.
- IlikeKitties 11mo agoThey hated him because he spoke the truth. An up to date ChromeOS is extremly secure compared to the non-existant security model of the linux desktop. Only Secureblue or QubesOS come even close.
- throwaway173738 11mo agoYou only have to give up control of the computer.
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoAndroid is open source; MacOS and Windows aren’t. This gives me more control over my computer, especially since this means LineageOS and GrapheneOS for the desktop soon.
- pbmonster 11mo agoI can conceive a couple of ways. GrapheneOS-style sand-boxing for every app is long overdue in Linux. I'd love to have it's granular permissions for every single service. I'd love to have the battery management, the unified settings UI, the effortless disk encryption UX and key management. Could you build it with SE Linux and a lot of glue? Yes, but nobody has. And doing it well, everywhere, would take a lot of hours.
- kangs 11mo agojust run bazzite already
- dlt713705 11mo ago> the unified settings UI You will never have a UI capable of encompassing all the settings available in Linux. You will only have a UI capable of configuring your desktop experience, which is just a small subset of the full Linux experience.
- pbmonster 11mo agoIs it unreasonable to ask "why not"? I like the state of Android's (as packaged by GrapheneOS) settings UI much better than any other settings system, period. It's all in one place - I can't think of a single thing I would want to configure that isn't found in that one dialog. It doesn't always make sense, but it's searchable, and the search works.
- lawlessone 11mo agoA Pc that requires every dev register their blood type with Google? where do i sign up /s edit: for all the iOS/MacOS whataboutists, i don't own any Apple devices for the same reasons, so not sure what point you are trying to make.
- bitpush 11mo agoIsnt that how it work on iOS as well?
- lawlessone 11mo agoi don't know ,haven't seen an iOS pc and i don't own any of their other iOS devices or a MacOS device edit: or an iPadOS Pro, for those who feel the need to highlight they spent the most.
- pjmlp 11mo agoIt is called iPadOS Pro.
- MishterKirby 11mo agoAre you referring to the iPad Pro or is there an actual iPadOS Pro I've never heard about?
- pjmlp 11mo agoOf course I am referring to what millions of people buy today, many of whom that is their only computing device.
- lawlessone 11mo agoGood for them, but what's the relevance, are you saying because people buy it's moral?
- bsimpson 11mo agoThat article was almost impossible to read with how often the content shifted around, presumably due to crappy ad scripting.
- gblargg 11mo agoWorked fine with NoScript having everything disabled.
- charcircuit 11mo agoI'm excited for this as it will allow desktops to get closer to the security of phones.
- ptsneves 11mo agoSo secure it locks the owners out.
- charcircuit 11mo agoYes, if someone sets a passcode and then forgets it, they will be locked out forever and lose all of their files. There is no way to prove physical ownership of the device, pretty mich the passcode proves who the owner is.
- bandrami 11mo agoIf I forget my LUKS passphrase no power on heaven or earth can recover my data
- fragmede 11mo agoSt. Gabriel, sitting on his cloud, looking at his Nvidia GPU supercomputer (also a cloud) fabbed by God, could totally bruteforce your LUKS key.
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- ulrikrasmussen 11mo agoThat's sort of the point of LUKS, and it's self-inflicted and your own choice because you didn't back up the key.
- wkat4242 11mo agoI don't think a mega corp having full access to my phone while me not having that is very "secure". Sure it's pretty ok against third parties but in my threat model Google and Apple are also adversaries. Microsoft too by the way. In my model my Linux pc is a lot more secure as there's no adversary having direct access and more control than me.
- wslh 11mo agoWeird that ChromeOS Flex is not mentioned, I wonder if we are just changing names with some added features. I don't think this is a OS, not based on Linux, like Fuchsia.
- zacharyvoase 11mo agoAluminIum you say?
- p1mrx 11mo agoThe name makes sense because Aluminium has an -ium suffix like Chromium. There's also no reason for the project name to agree with the US pronunciation of the element.
- hagbard_c 11mo agoWell, it makes sense and it doesn't because it makes it sound like this is a 'lightweight' version of the Chromium-based products while the opposite seems to be true. Call it Osmium instead, that's got '-ium' and some weight to it just like this thing.
- _carbyau_ 11mo agoI appreciate your understanding of the Table Of Elements and their properties, but I don't think most people will care about the weight. Maybe Osmium is/will-be an OS for their cloud clustering in future. IE something more heavyweight...
- nostrademons 11mo agoTeam started in Australia, they use British spellings.
- danpalmer 11mo agoTechnically they use Australian spellings, it's just that they overlap.
- alnwlsn 11mo agoMy dad always pronounced it a-luna-min, so my whole life I thought that there were 3 pronunciations, and the fact that there are only two correct ones feels strange to me. Not sure where he got that from, maybe he had special metal from the moon.
- ChocolateGod 11mo agoCant wait till like Android on phones, OEMs are put in charge of delivering updates to laptops, and if your laptop is older than 3 years good luck. Seems like a big downgrade compared to current ChromeOS where Google is in charge of all updates, or even Windows where Microsoft delivers the same updates to everyone.
- estimator7292 11mo agoThat's basically Microsoft's present strategy with W11. It seems to be going about as well as we'd hope
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoFunny anecdote. I had a Mac Mini Core 2 Duo that Apple dropped support for relatively quickly. I installed Windows 7 on it and it was running a supported OS did years after Apple dropped support for it. Windows 7 supported every piece of hardware on it. If Microsoft can make an operating system that supports third party computers - even those that were never meant to run it - without relying on the manufacturer, why can’t Google? Installing Windows did not require Boot Camp from Apple.
- xmprt 11mo agoThe entire basis of this article/rumor is a single job posting on Google's careers website... Unifying Android across all devices is Google's holy grail and they've been hiring for that for most than a decade. I don't think we have to read into this much.
- surajrmal 11mo agoUnifying the two has never been an internal goal until 2024. I'm not sure why you think otherwise. Everything before that has just been rumors and maybe one off projects by very small amounts of people. Rebasing ChromeOS on the lower half of Android is real and has been publicly announced. It is not necessarily the layers you will notice through. It's about unifying things like the kernel, display stack, power management, Bluetooth stack, etc. There are effectively divergent universes between ChromeOS and android (and the desktop Linux ecosystem) despite these things not necessarily requiring unique solutions.
- dredmorbius 11mo agoMight be that the source of the rumour is an inside disclosure which pointed to the job listing as a published fact. That's an extrapolation on my part, of course, but it's not inconsistent with how other leaks or disclosures have occurred. Can't speak to Android Authority's practices here.
- 0manrho 11mo agoIf you, like me, were wondering why Google thinks it needs another operating system (ChromeOS, Android, Fuchsia - which is presumably dead (edit/turns out it's not/edit)) or where it fits in with the "stack": > ChromeOS and Aluminium Operating System (ALOS) Commercial devices across all form factors (e.g. laptops, detachables, tablets, and boxes) and tiers (e.g., Chromebook, Chromebook Plus, AL Entry, AL Mass Premium, and AL Premium) that meets the needs of users and the business. Sounds like ChromeOS is Android for entry/thin and similar PC's and Aluminum is more upmarket/premium. Also, to be honest, this doesn't seem like "a new OS" to me, but rather a shift in Android's roadmap and an associated rebrand to try to push ChromeOS/Android upmarket to try and expand their "Devices with Gemini/Google AI as a first-class service/product" footprint beyond cell phones. Given the push for arm in the consumer PC space, I can kinda see why google is renewing efforts here even if you set the AI stuff aside.
- 0manrho 11mo agoOh, Fuchsia isn't dead [0]. Apparently it's what the Nest Hub launched with and the latest update is pretty recent: from Oct 2025. Interesting. (Replying to my own comment instead of editing it as this is tangential to the topic at hand) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)
- mdhb 11mo agoNot only is it not dead it’s under HEAVY active development and has been for quite some time now. They seem particularly focused on the Linux compatibility layer (starnix) as far as I can tell. I’d say they are most likely going to end up becoming the thing that Android sits on top of. There is already public indications of some variant of it called “microfuchsia” coming to Android. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that this is all part of the same launch that they are working towards here.
- p1necone 11mo ago> Linux compatibility layer I can't wait to play Windows PC games on a Linux compatibility layer (Proton) on a Fuschia compatibility layer (Starnix) and still have them inexplicably run smoother than on the system they were originally developed for.
- ProAm 11mo agoIs there any Android app that is worth using on a PC? Not being snarky, I cant see anything on Android being good enough for a desktop app that is used regularly. Most of the Android apps I use are the 'best of the worse' and I have to use them because there is no other options.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agohttps://www.pleco.com/ https://www.pleco.com/
- ProAm 11mo agoThis is a great podcast about that: https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoAbout what? Wubi is an input method, not a dictionary.
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- SapporoChris 11mo agoFor myself there are not any android apps that I need on my desktop. However it's important to look at things from a global perspective, not just personal. There is a robust mobile gaming market worth hundreds of billions in USA alone.
- dktp 11mo agoI used to main Pixelbook (1st gen) for about a year. ChromeOS really is enough for the majority of day to day stuff. For development it allows you to run linux environment inside ChromeOS I can only assume the Aluminium OS would aim to do the same
- drpixie 11mo agoAnd it's been possible to run android on x86 for years. It's just that nobody wants to, except for app developers ... because you wouldn't/couldn't/shouldn't develop on a phone ;)
- crims0n 11mo agoOne of those things that makes so much sense it’s a wonder it didn’t happen sooner.
- goku12 11mo agoNo thanks! It makes sense for them, not for us. Their rent seeking behavior, locking down of the OS and hardware and their hostility towards the FOSS mod community and users have all worsened lately. The only reason why they ever revisit such 'features' is a massive backlash from the community. Then again, history has shown that they try to smuggle them back in some other form. Desktop and laptop are the last standing bastions of user modifiability and general purpose computing. The situation on smartphones is so desparate that I type this message on a half-crippled Android installation, hopelessly wishing that it was Linux in here instead. I don't mind sacrifing some convenience and functionality for a while while the devs figure out how to iron out the shortfalls of Linux on smartphones. I absolutely don't want to concede that same ground on desktops and laptops. We deserve at least some devices that we can experiment and modify to our liking. I know that if the trillion dollar corporation is out for it, they will force it down the throats of naive people or those who don't know any better. Soon afterwards, the rest of us will have two options - a dwindling supply of heavily modified and refurbished used configurable systems, or locked down, dumbed down machines with arbitrary restrictions like everyone else. At least until then, I believe that it's well worth resisting the invasion of freedoms for as long as we can.
- ulrikrasmussen 11mo agoThanks, I completely agree with you! It seems that most people here will happily trade their freedom for some convenience by just handing their digital lives to Google though, which to me is crazy, but apparently how the majority thinks.
- goku12 11mo agoYes. The big red flag here is that these are people who should know better. Not like the ordinary folks who may be ignorant about it to some extend.
- devinprater 11mo agoAndroid accessibility is so not ready for PC. Navigate with keyboard and TalkBack and you'll hear "selected" everywhere which is redundant, since if TalkBack is speaking a UI element, it is selecting it for action. Apps aren't ready for keyboard either. They really, really aren't ready for a launch next year. But I'm sure they will. And few blind people will care because (almost) every blind person uses windows or an iPhone as their main computer and so Google will think they're doing just fine.
- gf000 11mo agoI don't really get your point. The accessibility story can surely be improved, but it's absolutely 100% better on Android, than what we have on GNU/Linux today, so at the end of the day it's just one more choice for end-users. And keyboard and the like will also get a chance to get fixed if more people are interested in the platform.
- Muromec 11mo agoAccessibility is not the additional feature that can be improved later. If it's not there when you sell the product, you can be fined.
- pxc 11mo agoAccessibility is often neglected anyway. It's just the sad truth
- phantasmish 11mo agoI dunno that it will be improved. ChromeOS is pretty bad on that front (or at least was a couple years ago when I set up a chrome book for my elderly dad).
- VerifiedReports 11mo agoWas anyone asking for this? And I'm not just talking about the extra I...
- VerifiedReports 11mo agoSomeone downvoted this question?
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- ulrikrasmussen 11mo agoWith the move to close down Android further and evil remote attestation, the PC is the last computing platform that leaves the user in somewhat control over the system. This is an indirect attack on our freedom, and I really don't want a future where two American companies somehow got a duopoly with full control over the hardware and software stack of all general purpose computing devices, and on top of that also act as the gatekeepers and distributors of all third-party software. Fuck. That. Shit. I want full control, and by that I don't mean the ability to customize the color of my UI, but the ability to run whatever software I choose on the device that I supposedly own. Sure, I may be able to technically be able to run Linux on a PC and retain my free choice for a while, but that is only until Google and Apple has finished selling their remote attestation security snake oil to governments, banks and service providers so that people like me will just be excluded from the digital society altogether.
- ktpsns 11mo agoYou won't be excluded, just being forced to buy and operate a shitty second device with their OS just to do online banking, etc. I have hope in open OS such as Linux and the BSDs that they also survive the upcoming hardware lockdowns. Just look how they reverse engineered the MacBook chips. Took a long time but worked out. It remains a constant fight against big tech.
- te0006 11mo agoDoes anybody think Aluminium as a brand name is a good choice? Especially considering the intended expansion towards the premium market. To me it sounds cheap, second-rate, ersatz. What you use if you cannot afford a better metal. Chrome is shiny, aluminium surfaces soon get dim again after any polishing attempt.
- BlueGh0st 11mo agoYou don't even need to go that far to think its a bad name. The anglosphere can't even agree on the pronunciation and spelling. Malicious actors will certainly take advantage of this as well.
- chuckadams 11mo agoLooking forward to hearing my British colleagues calling it "Al-yoo-MIN-ee-um" OS, but I'm failing to see how evil hackers are going to exploit that.
- dmos62 11mo agoI think that the general concensus is as long as a name doesn't start with a V, and is not taken, it's a good brand name. You can substitute W for V though, as in Waginium.
- ajvs 11mo agoIt's likely just a codename for now.
- impossiblefork 11mo agoAluminium is also what you built aircraft out of back in the day, and they could very shiny. I also don't think it's ersatz anything. It's what you use if you build large, stiff objects that aren't supposed to rust. It's certainly less ersatz than steel, with a less martial character. So I don't agree. I think it can signify something clean, light, unburdened by heavy and unnecessary things. I don't intend to use it though, for reasons everybody else gives, app-stores etc.
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- liendolucas 11mo agoNo one tech-savvy wants this. We are already sick of Google's Android lockdowns on mobile phones, and now coming after laptops and desktops? What's that going to be like? Will developers have to beg to have control over devices they own? Will we be locked down on the store and have to manually install "unverified" software? Will I be able to take screenshots at will on MY computer, or get a black screen because Google decides so? The list can go on and on ad nauseam. Given what Google has done on the mobile space I have zero interest in having the same autocratic experience to be replicated on the last type of devices (PCs and laptops) where we can really have true open choices and alternatives. Screw them.
- matejdro 11mo agoI guess this is more meant as an replacement for Chrome OS? That one is already pretty locked down, so switching to Android does not change much.
- thiht 11mo agoI always assumed Chrome OS was some kind of Android build anyway, but apparently not
- exasperaited 11mo agoChromeOS has been converging on Android for a while but never quite gets there. They are asymptotic ;-) It rather looks like Aluminium OS is the intended solution. I don't see any problem with it being "locked down", in the sense that it doesn't sound any worse than Chrome OS or Android. The open question is whether any open source release will happen worth a damn.
- Zak 11mo ago> I don't see any problem with it being "locked down", in the sense that it doesn't sound any worse than Chrome OS or Android. I think the problem is that it further normalizes computers where users don't have the final say. The more normarized systems like that are, the more likely app developers (and even websites, if something like web environment integrity were to be normalized) are to lock out users on systems that aren't so restricted. I wish I didn't have to care what kind of computers most people use, but in reality, it matters what's popular.
- DeathArrow 11mo agoSo after Qualcomm successfully brought Windows to ARM, now the will bring Android to PCs. This is hilarious!
- rock_artist 11mo agoWe're now in a mixed computing era that is shaping the future of computing: Ignoring niche OSes (eg consumer electronics such as TVs/dishwashers/etc) - PC (Windows, Linux, macOS) - Mobile (to simplify, this includes phones, watches and ongoing AR / AI progress based around Android and iOS with some Meta) Mobile already "broke" the rules, and we have locked down devices with simplified "app stores" and more complex off-the-market OSes since each device is a unique SoC combination many times with closed-sourced blobs. Web did a major change for desktop (which I guess part of the assumption for ChromeOS). but there are still some scenarios where native APIs are needed. On the other hand, current Desktop OS market is a mess, Windows is focusing on intrusive features and enforcing user account, Apple is all about "notarizing" and making desktop similar to mobile, and Linux is diverged with multiple variants. I really hope for opinionated Linux distribution promoted by a big player (I've always hoped Adobe or someone in the right size will understand the need and their ability to get enough common products to it). Having said that, Linux did great advancement over the years. Many companies including closed source already have some support and also gaming made great advancement. Anyway, Making a "locked os" won't do much. So unless Google plans to shoot their own leg, they'll need to make it open enough.
- jon_richards 11mo agoSteam OS might get a boost soon with their new hardware.
- qwertox 11mo agoWith their latest developer policy changes, what should make me think that this will be an open OS? And if they allow downloaded apps to be run, they'll be monitoring them in depth, not caring about privacy, since they have never cared about privacy. Every App has internet access and I cannot block or control it.
- iamcalledrob 11mo agoI struggle to imagine existing Android apps being useful in a desktop form factor. It's not just about touch vs mouse/keyboard, it's the whole interaction design philosophy. And it's not as if you can say that getting the Android developer experience on desktop is going to entice developers. Compose is decent, but the actual Android system APIs make Win32 look brilliant. At least Win32 is stable. For this to be viable, there has to be a bigger strategy than just "Android apps and APIs on a desktop" -- because neither of those are appealing. Users and developers will just stick with the web.
- makeitdouble 11mo agoChromeOS already had an android adapter layer and apps would run windowed, with an option to respect the original size or allow arbitrary resize. I assume we're in the same situation with Samsung's Dex ? It worked decently well, the main issues were unrelated to the handling in itself (the Bluetooth stack was dead for android apps, trying the smart appliance stuff was just a fool's errand)
- iamcalledrob 11mo agoRight -- it technically "works", but I don't think you'd want to actually be productive in these existing Android apps on the desktop. Imagine the experience of trying to write a paper in Android Google Docs, vs firing up the web version. Games perhaps being a big exception.
- makeitdouble 11mo agoI don't use Docs to write novels, but for basic official documents and a few reports I'm looking at, there's very few things missing. When in phone view a lot of the options are hard to find, but in tablet/desktop mode (yes, that's a thing already) it's really close to what you get on the web. The main different is the menu layout, where most advanced functionalities go to an extended menu instead of the standard File/Edit/View/Insert... menus at the top of the page. Otherwise there seem to be most of what's needed, including extensions apparently. Perhaps media management could be tougher, it's supported by on don't how much of a PITA it could be, I haven't pushed that far on the android version.
- ongytenes 11mo agoYea! Finally an answer to the big brother Windows 11! But isn't Google just as bad at spying on us? It's just trading one big brother for an another. Oh yeah... didn't think of that. Hey haven't you ever just ever considered using Linux?
- amsterdorn 11mo agoGoogle you're a NA company, we say "aluminum". Also an OS built around an "AI core" sounds like a privacy nightmare.
- NoSalt 11mo agoWhy, though ... so they can limit the software we put on our PCs now???
- aristofun 11mo agoI really dream of the day they bring Android to trash bin and instead of kicking the dead horse come up with something new and good, after learning from mistakes.
- exabrial 11mo agoAn operating system ran by an advertiser is the worse thing you could ever run. Chromebooks were awesome because they were impossible to screw up. Then the advertising department rammed itself in there.
- marginalia_nu 11mo agoTo be fair, we're like an inch from verification cans on Windows 11 already.
- elcritch 11mo agoHate to admit it but I sorta miss the evil M$SFT days. At least Windows was the product then.
- netdevphoenix 11mo agoI wonder what this means for the mobile ecosystem (talking about essential apps whose usage requires a smartphone : digital only banks, whatsapp, etc). The sitation is such that if you need to use any of the above (except whatsapp which has backward compatibility going all the way back to android 6), you pretty much are required to buy a new phone every 2-5 years which is wild. Making Android Os available somewhere could potentially be another avenue to access Android apps. Yes, I know about waydroid and similar, but it is very slow and requires you to have relatively powerful machine. Of course, ideally, a Proton like layer would be best
- stuaxo 11mo agoWonder if this will get them to fix keyboard navigation in Android apps.
- jmpman 11mo agoIf it supported Steam and my game library, I would sprint to this option.
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoNot jmp?
- notepad0x90 11mo agoif this will work on a VM just fine, better than androidx86 I'm all for it. There are many apps that don't need to be apps but are. I want to run them in a controlled/isolated VM. For a long time (still?) Signal wouldn't run unless you have an android/iphone app installed first for example. Android laptops are already a thing. A lot of the hate Windows 11 is getting is because it is trying to compete with Android. And they're both placating to consumers' desires.
- wltr 11mo agoI hope it’s too late and nobody wants this. Any modern Linux distro is plentiful for an average Joe. Especially when we know the games are mostly hassle-free now.
- the_real_cher 11mo agoWhatever happened to fuchsia!? I was excited about another alternative to The Big Three os's.
- slim 11mo agoWe don't want Android for PC, we want a Steam Phone
- sharts 11mo agoThe Windows 11 alternative nobody asked for.
- paradox242 11mo agoLike anyone wants an OS that not only gatekeeps the software you run but surveils everything you do.