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Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

www.aboutchromebooks.com

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Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

www.aboutchromebooks.com

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
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    55•2 years ago

    The absolute last thing I’m going to do is use a Google product.

    • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈
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      -10•2 years ago

      They have the best security of any desktop OS iirc

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        26•2 years ago

        You’re not safe from Google though. And that’s quite a big backdoor if you’re a target of interest.

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        3•2 years ago

        Forgot the /s

        • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈
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          8•2 years ago

          Security, not privacy

          ChromeOS has sandboxing, which already puts it miles ahead of Windows and Linux (no, the Flatpak Sandbox doesn’t count)

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            It’s not the only desktop OS that has sandboxing.

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              6•2 years ago

              windows sandbox is… getting there, macos is decent but iirc the app dev can choose to not use it. all Linux options require user intervention to ensure it’s set up properly. ChromeOS’ sandboxing technique is inherited from Android and is the strongest/strictest of any desktop operating system.

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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