Comment by jillesvangurp
2 years ago
It runs a linux kernel, which makes it a Linux based OS. It probably integrates a lot of linux stuff too, and it of course comes with virtualization support (leveraging the support for this in linux) to run proper linux applications and development tools, etc.
It's big enough to be worth counting separately though. Interesting that regular linux now has twice the market share of Chrome OS.
It still isn't GNU/Linux, and if ChromeOS virtualization counts as Linux, so does WSL, as the technical approach to run GNU/Linux inside its own VM is quite similar in both OSes.
Normal ChromeOS users only have a browser based userspace.
Semantics. GNU/Linux is a subset of linuxes. Chrome OS runs a linux kernel, includes lots of libraries and other things from linux, which, like it or not, makes it another (and pretty significant) subset of linux. Which is why it is counted separately.
Semantics that matter, unless we are counting uses of Linux kernel.
Like it or not, there is nothing from GNU/Linux that normies get exposure to when using their beloved Web Apps on ChromeOS.
Maybe we should include JSLinux into that, to bump numbers up.
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