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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pbmonster on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @05:29AM (#46044464)
Is it unreasonable to ask "why not"? I like the state of Android's (as packaged by GrapheneOS) settings UI much better than any other settings system, period.

It's all in one place - I can't think of a single thing I would want to configure that isn't found in that one dialog. It doesn't always make sense, but it's searchable, and the search works.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by rs186 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @07:55AM (#46045331)
Just imagine configuring nginx or apache with UI.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by snarfy on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:52AM (#46045773)
The good old days of

    make menuconfig
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pbmonster on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:21AM (#46045990)
Come on, we're talking about system settings on future ChromeBooks. Of course I don't want a GUI for writing nginx config files.

Android is very good at exposing things like

* "which service may know the device location?"

* "which app accessed the microphone 2 minutes ago?"

* "which apps burn the most battery?"

All of those make sense on ChormeBooks, and all of those are difficult with Linux.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by rs186 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:34AM (#46056804)
The point is that many of Linux's system settings are almost as complex as that. You want some examples?
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