cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22174477
A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans to basically turn Chrome OS into Android.
That’s a lot of words to say “google killing chrome os”
And then it will catch on and Google will abandon it.
*And then it will catch on fire and Google will abandon it.
Finally. ChromeOS has always been a dumb idea. Making an entire OS just to use sluggish web apps in Chrome. Who thought of that? As if Android could not do web apps. Then, years later, ChromeOS got “native” apps, in quotation marks because those were just Android apps. So a whole dedicated OS, just to launch Android apps in a compatibility layer. Some additional years later, ChromeOS got “native” games via Steam. Again, quotation marks, because those run in a Debian-based container.
Samsung DeX shows since many years that a Android with a desktop UI is a possibility.
Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM? That’s going to be so wasteful. But I am curious.
It won’t be good for flashing though. Probably once support ends, it’ll be a slow brick upon which one can’t install linux.
Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM?
Non-web applications on ChromeOS already run in containers. Developer mode (or however ChromeOS calls it) is just installing Debian in an LXC container.
That’s going to be so wasteful.
Have you ever tried browsing the web using Chrome? THAT’S wasteful on resources. A command line-only container for Python development is nothing by comparison.
You have been able to do this on Android for a while using Termux, Proot Distro and VSCode Server. I even did it once to host two Angular Frontends on Android to free up Memory form my main latop running the backend.
Tbh they should just turn it into a google Linux distro, IMO just bundle Gnome with it and add flatpak support
No they are doing it because they are going to be forced to sell Chrome, and they don’t want to lose Chromebooks
