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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by noobermin on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:44PM (#16042404)
And the same vendors will suddenly write better drivers with a new unfamiliar OS?
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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by spankalee on Sunday December 31, 2017 @06:02PM (#16043506)
No, but the drivers and kernel will be updatable independently, and the drivers will be sandboxed to their own process with limited permissions.

The quality of the user experience will be better as a driver crash won't bring down the device.

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