Who wants Android on a PC? If anything, let’s get some better options for Linux on phones, tablets, and TVs.
Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know
Submitted 3 days ago by mrdown@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092
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melfie@lemy.lol 2 days ago
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Right now Android is a significantly better experience on touch screens like phones and tablets. And that would still hold for 2-in-1 laptops. Same for TVs and home consoles, better designed for remote/gamepad control.
Support is developing though and as we get more touch friendly and gamepad friendly linux, we get more PC friendly android, including non wall-gardened forks.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Currently using plasma mobile on a 16 year old thin client and media PC, its working flawlessly
melfie@lemy.lol 1 day ago
It unfortunately is. I’m currently using Linux on a mini PC with Pegasus Frontend and a remote to launch Jellyfin, VacuumTube, and games as a HTPC. It’s necessary to exit each app differently to get back to the launcher, and then if anything gets hung up, I have to connect a keyboard and mouse. Really looking forward to Plasma Bigscreen to deliver a UX more like Android TV.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Much like Android XR, Google says its new Aluminium OS is ‘built with artificial intelligence (AI) at the core.’ This implies deep integration with Gemini”
.Nah fuck off somewhere else please would ya
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s been a few days since this was posted, has google killed it yet?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
kindly fuck off from my computer
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The experience is not the same
yesman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
original_reader@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Because it will give Google full control over yoir device and it’s software. Same reason they try to close the app landscape on Android.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
So just a closed Linux? Not any different than windows when it’s run by a massive corpo.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Okay. Are they going to do the same thing they're doing in Android now? Are we going to need to use ADB to install software without their consent?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Everyone else is asking why and here I am wondering why an American company would use the English spelling of aluminium instead of the American spelling “aluminum” (Americans drop the last I).
Or maybe the author just wrote it in English out of habit and the word looks like the American version at a glance. But it’s something I notice.
palordrolap@fedia.io 2 days ago
Fun fact: "Aluminium" is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with "Sulphur", because the international / official spelling of that is "Sulfur". The others aren't wrong, but they're not the standard.
Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.
specialwall@midwest.social 3 days ago
Here’s hoping GrapheneOS decides to support it! 🤞
a_person@piefed.social 3 days ago
Honestly, anything is better than windows. Even if it is horrible, its still some competition to microsoft.
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Linux has existed for 31 years.
a_person@piefed.social 2 days ago
And it hasnt been a competitor for 31 years. I am not saying its bad, I will be switching to linux, but for most it isnt viable.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
x86 Android is new?
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No but they are trying to merge ChromeOS with Android. Specifically running any linux app natively on Android
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.