Comment by akvadrako
2 years ago
It's not so different than a modern immutable distro with Wayland and Flatpak apps, like Fedora Silverblue.
Sure, some of the daemons are different, like upstart instead of systemd. And out of the box it supports Android apps and doesn't allow shell access outside a container.
But I don't see what's fundamentally different.
It's managed and owned by Google. That's what makes it different. I don't agree, but there's a clear us/them divide happening with Chrome OS right now that's also generational.
The vast, vast majority of ChromeOS users are children/students and teachers. ChromeOS exists so that Google has more avenues of data collection, so that they can sell schools on their ecosystem, and so that kids grow up on Google products (Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc) instead of Windows and Office. ChromeOS is a very legitimate threat to Windows/Office. Traditional desktop Linux isn't.