Is usability breaking Linux adoption?

Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday August 10, 2012 @09:57AM (#4366155)

I think Chrome OS is the desktop computer OS of the future, not Linux, or Windows, or Mac OS X. Sure, there are some things (like OS and library development) you can't do on the web, but there are a lot of things that you can.

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Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by gizmo686 on Friday August 10, 2012 @10:03AM (#4366182)

You do realize that Chrome OS is an openSUSE based Linux distribution?

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Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday August 10, 2012 @10:13AM (#4366224)

I'm well aware of that. Chrome OS doesn't run the typical Linux stack though. No X11 (I think...), no GNOME, KDE, or other common desktop environment, no native applications, etc.

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Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by steevdave on Saturday August 11, 2012 @09:20PM (#4371505)

It does use X11, but ChromeOS uses its own WM (chromewm). If you check out the sources for ChromiumOS, you can see what all it uses, although there are parts that Google add on top.

There are ways to run native apps on it, but they are definitely tucked away for normal users/uses.

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Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by bmasci on Friday August 10, 2012 @10:14AM (#4366225)

I believe he is referencing the ease of use for chromeOS rather than its connection to linux.

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Re:Is usability breaking Linux adoption? by steevdave on Friday August 10, 2012 @10:12AM (#4366219)

Actually it's Gentoo based, not OpenSUSE.

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