Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA
Buffalox@lemmy.world 21 hours agoOh so you can install KDE/Gnome/XFCE apps on Chrome OS and they will work?
You know the “desktop” in Desktop Linux means it goes beyond terminal commands right?
jabjoe@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Yes you can, but they are actually in a LXC container with Wayland/X from outside (I think it is also in a KVM/QEmu). (Interesting project : chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/…/README.md)
If you look at the architecture it looks more normal than Android.
www.chromium.org/…/software-architecture/
Others note this:
aboutchromebooks.com/now-more-than-ever-chromeos-…
It’s made of lots of FOSS, but it is a dystopian version of a Linux desktop.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
OK maybe you are technically correct which is the best kind of correct.
It just goes against every nerve in my body to categorize Chrome OS as part of Desktop Linux.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Yeah, I hear you. It’s not going to be the case for long anyway.