The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops

Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday November 22, 2024 @02:33PM (#42216716)

I've been taking the exact opposite view: Android is a messy, ugly OS, from the unmaintained hacked-up kernels to the user-hostile UI, and I've wished that they'd scrap it and rebase those usecases onto the shockingly vanilla Gentoo spin that is ChromeOS.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by bbarnett on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:52AM (#42220129)

I'd just be happy if by law, security updates had to be updated monthly, with weekly and daily for certain criticals, for a minimum of 5 years.

And maybe a 10% revenue fine, yes revenue, for each missed metric.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by bigfatkitten on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:23AM (#42220360)

Chrome OS devices (depending on release date) are good for up to 10 years.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by eviks on Saturday November 23, 2024 @07:03AM (#42220490)

Such a draconian measure for measly 5 years?

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by anybody8824 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @10:57AM (#42221539)

In the EU, this will be the case from next year on (2025-06-20). No monthly security patch frequency requirement, but instead "security updates [...] need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system" [1].

Complying with this new regulation and bumping the Linux kernel version during the device life cycle was also a topic at this year's Linux Plumbers Android MC. [2][3]. This is necessary because the Linux LTS support timeframe is shorter than the by law mandated minimum support period of 5 years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41128358

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj

[2] https://youtu.be/b9xXCNYMWjY?si=yxDJUbJHko8HvFTA&t=458

[3] https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1740/attachments/1...

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by graemep on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:17AM (#42220335)

I agree. On top of that Android apps are designed for use on phones. Some of them are not even particularly good on tablets, and they will be horrible on laptops.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by kotaKat on Saturday November 23, 2024 @08:23AM (#42220723)

Meanwhile I wish ChromeOS would pivot BACK to just being a browser window and nothing else. I didn't want the windowing experience that ChromeOS added down the line -- I wanted just that simple Chrome browser window, full screen, and nothing else.

As soon as they added a taskbar and made it behave like every other generic desktop environment, it became crap.

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Re:The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops by ChocolateGod on Saturday November 23, 2024 @08:58AM (#42220891)

I agree, on ChromeOS it's entirely possible for their to be generic images that support a wide ranges of devices all sharing the same update path (like Windows, MacOS).

on Android? very much still in the embedded space on how it's built. Linux on ARM is generally still a shit show.

I'd rather ChromeOS get a Android runtime (not a VM) and replace Android, than the other way around.

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