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Comment by dlt713705

4 days ago

> the unified settings UI

You will never have a UI capable of encompassing all the settings available in Linux. You will only have a UI capable of configuring your desktop experience, which is just a small subset of the full Linux experience.

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pbmonster  4 days ago

Is it unreasonable to ask "why not"? I like the state of Android's (as packaged by GrapheneOS) settings UI much better than any other settings system, period.

It's all in one place - I can't think of a single thing I would want to configure that isn't found in that one dialog. It doesn't always make sense, but it's searchable, and the search works.

  • rs186  4 days ago

    Just imagine configuring nginx or apache with UI.

    • pbmonster  4 days ago

      Come on, we're talking about system settings on future ChromeBooks. Of course I don't want a GUI for writing nginx config files.

      Android is very good at exposing things like

      * "which service may know the device location?"

      * "which app accessed the microphone 2 minutes ago?"

      * "which apps burn the most battery?"

      All of those make sense on ChormeBooks, and all of those are difficult with Linux.

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