> There are two things here. One is getting an OS that can be installed on most computers out there, unlike ChromeOS, which is limited in that area
ChromeOS is pretty portable. There have been multiple, successful, projects to create generic installers for it and Google even decided to bless one. ChromeOS is basically a Gentoo fork that's been heavily locked down. The only proprietary part that talks to hardware in the entire system is their display system, which is true of Android too. Google's blessed v
Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.
This just doesn't make sense. We're supposed to believe that the software now running on phones requires more hardware than the software now running on laptops?
I'm convinced Google is run by idiots. Look at ChromeOS Flex. With just a few tweaks, with the allowance of just a few desktop apps, Google would have a wide-open opportunity to make a serious run at Microsoft's home PC dominance because of the whole Windows 11 requirements issue. There are millions upon millions of perfectly good computers that are now going to landfills because of that, and they could all have Flex running on them if it wasn't for Google's short-sighted strategy. You can't even watch a DV
I suspect that they are very smart, there are just too many of them. Get the smartest 100 people in the world, put them in a room, and wait to be amazed at how stupid the results are.
Will it be anything worthwhile? Or will it be another tiny niche Google walled garden, eclipsed by Windows, MacOS, Linux...
> There are two things here. One is getting an OS that can be installed on most computers out there, unlike ChromeOS, which is limited in that area
ChromeOS is pretty portable. There have been multiple, successful, projects to create generic installers for it and Google even decided to bless one. ChromeOS is basically a Gentoo fork that's been heavily locked down. The only proprietary part that talks to hardware in the entire system is their display system, which is true of Android too. Google's blessed v
Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.
This just doesn't make sense. We're supposed to believe that the software now running on phones requires more hardware than the software now running on laptops?
I'm convinced Google is run by idiots. Look at ChromeOS Flex. With just a few tweaks, with the allowance of just a few desktop apps, Google would have a wide-open opportunity to make a serious run at Microsoft's home PC dominance because of the whole Windows 11 requirements issue. There are millions upon millions of perfectly good computers that are now going to landfills because of that, and they could all have Flex running on them if it wasn't for Google's short-sighted strategy. You can't even watch a DV