Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
by tssva on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:00AM
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I'm not sure it addresses a different use case than Fedora or Ubuntu. Fedora and Ubuntu on the desktop are likely mostly used for internet browsing and productivity applications. This is the same for ChromeOS.
Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
by asdigonationio on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:38PM
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The ChromeOS use case is a strict subset of the use case of a normal Linux laptop. There is nothing stopping you from treating an Ubuntu installation as if it's as limited as a Chromebook. It's every bit as lightweight and can be every bit as locked down.
Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
by yencabulator on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:07PM
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> can be every bit as locked down
I've never seen the security stuff from ChromeOS be ported to live outside of ChromeOS. When I looked at it (trying to build the inside-container agents for acustom container image), the error messages for setting it up incorrectly were.. let's charitably say hard to understand. I doubt anyone outside of ChromeOS developers understands it, really.
It's pretty intricate, e.g. giving Wayland access to virtual machines in a safe way.
There's a reasonable argument that Chrome OS is Linux--or at least more so than Android is. But it's not so much that it's "the wrong kind of Linux" according to purists as the article says but that it mostly addresses a different use case than installing Fedora or Ubuntu and therefore, IMO, it generally makes sense to treat them separately unless your point is that Linux (and *nix generally) has a pretty large market share on both desktop and mobile.