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Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by ticviking on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:53PM (#22610292)
It's mostly the layering that bothers me.

I don't mind Chrome OS and love my chromebook.

Some of this is aesthetic so I don't really expect to change minds, but if we lived in the world of "Life and Death of Javascript" and booted to some kind of Web OS I'd be annoyed at the loss of low level hackibility and get over it.

Booting to Linux, then booting a browser to get to a normal app that doesn't need network connectivity "feels" wrong.

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Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by pjmlp on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:24AM (#22614138)
Booting to Linux is just because Google did not want to start from scratch.

If they took a Xerox approach, ChromeOS would have a tiny mikrokernel, hypervisor type 1 style, and jump directly into Chrome.

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