Thats good. Dont waste resources on googles shitware.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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It's not good. Sometimes the only computer a kid has is a chromebook because their parents got it for them for school. I'm seeing more and people just don't have computers at all. PC isn't moving fluidly to the next generation as a result. I've told parents about steam deck hoping they'll pick that as their kid's game console, but it's not as easy as when I was a kid where you just had a computer anyway and it was about if it could play the game you wanted to play. With the indie scene that concern when away a lot, but now a lot of kids just don't have PCs
It's really ~~easy~~ well documented how to install postmarket-os on chrome books, as described here: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wikiCategory:ChromeOS . Go and be the person that empowers these kids and transforms their computer into a machine they can use and modify in any way they like, instead of remaining mere recipients of the actions of some billion dollar company
I would personally rather have no computer than a spyware infested one, but i see your point.
Thats good. Dont waste resources on google~~s shitware~~.
Having daily driven Windows (~6 years growing up), MacOS (8+ years for work), Linux (~18 years on personal and (some) work machines), and ChromeOS (~2 years, on a cheap Chromebook used while I was traveling places I didn't want to take an expensive machine), if my options were Windows, MacOS, or ChromeOS, I would 100% take ChromeOS. Even on cheap hardware, it was a better user experience than the others... Though I will caveat that with: when I had to do work that required heavy lifting, I remoted into my Linux desktop. But that was a hardware limitation, rather than a software limitation.
For people who know what they're doing, I recommend traditional Linux. For those who don't, I recommend ChromeOS. Mac and Windows are both also run by mega corps, they're all spying on users... at least ChromeOS is performant and stable.
cheap hardware
I thought that's why you bought used lenovo thinkpads.
Chromeos is moving to android
Why is it up to google?
ChromeOS moves from a Gentoo-derived base that’s relatively close to desktop Linux to Android. Google wrote a technology that lets Linux X11 applications work with ChromeOS‘s display stack. Seems this is not a priority to be ported over.
Edit [2025-08-10]: I need to correct myself. According to https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/ support for Wayland support is in development. I don't know how much it matured in the months since that article. No idea if / how well it's supported on X86, though, which is a requirement for Steam.
It's a pretty big change then... They should call it ChromeOS/2 or something.
Now you've got me wanting to try and run OS/2 Warp in a VM.
their loss
Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?
Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?
Seems like Google moved to a new framework but X86 support may be a problem: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/
Maybe they no longer intend to keep some API/Protocol compatible.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: BIG SUCCESS
It's hard to overrate my satisfaction.