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nmcain

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    Comment #24992273

    Should be fixed now, we had a little hiccup with the the translation system that caused it to crash on launch.

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    Comment #24992265

    It uses virtualization to run most/all Linux tools, I'm not quite sure if the functionality is bridged between the UI in Fuchsia yet, but the end product will likely end up looking…

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    Comment #24984789

    There currently is a bug with the localization at the moment. we are working to correct it but it seems to be quite a bug lol

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    Comment #24983541

    Bit of a fun fact, chrome OS is mostly C++ for the GUI.

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    Comment #24983098

    It does seem to be a trend nowdays. I think the most fitting analogy to what we are doing is "Desigining the album cover for the world tour, when we only have a few songs for it." …

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    Comment #24982972

    The wording is definitely a little brash and market-y, but I don't think there is anything on the site that is explicitly false, but of course it probably comes across as represent…

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    Comment #24981904

    You can't install it, and this early on you shouldnt. My word alone probably does not carry much weight, but it is relatively safe, likely safer for usage than most current distrib…

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    Comment #24981871

    Flutter's team is making efforts to improve it on other platforms, iirc it powers Stadia, and the new Google iOT hardware like the Home Hub (or whever they are calling that now) an…

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    Comment #24977781

    With those benefits, there are also some major caveats that temporarily put a wrench in development. Fuchsia demands a system with a Kaby Lake CPU or newer, which were fairly hard …

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    Comment #24977609

    We initially experimented with almost exactly what was described here, but it lacked one thing and that was third party expandablility. Sadly, I see no way for common and modern ap…

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    Comment #24977591

    The builds are not neccessarily licensed, Fuchsia is Apache, and our source is Apache, I'm not quite sure legally about the final product of it. The underlying Linux system is lice…

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    Comment #24977568

    That's perfectly understandable, I even feel that I went a little too "slick marketing" with the website, but I have extremely high, maybe even too high goals for the project.

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    Comment #24977469

    Not to mention some of the best touch gesture support on Linux I have seen so far, one of the benefits of it being a mobile platform ig

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    Comment #24977387

    It definitely isn't an insult :). I attempt to keep more quality and professionalism now, the earlier days of the project were, as they say, "turbulent". I do enjoy seeing criticis…

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    Comment #24977347

    It is a bit of a mess. It really shouldn't be able to run online, it just happens to be possible, so we decided to put it up. Flutter really isn't quite mature enough for productio…

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    Comment #24977309

    Thankfully that's just around for layout reference, working with the Process class was absolutely infuriating. I have made more effort since then to be more verbose and keeping the…

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    Comment #24977284

    yikes I can't imagine writing all that in JS

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    Comment #24977275

    Not sure exactly what it has to do with gnome or dbus, the desktop is backed by X11 (Migration to Wayland is underway but it's a pain to work with), the Flutter embedder itself ren…

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    Comment #24977256

    Yeah, sorry about the performance. We kinda put that together as an impromptu web demo, like the old ubuntu tour. Flutter for the web is super sucky right now, and lacks a lot of t…

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    Comment #23375554

    As a developer of a Fuchsia fork, I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, not all components are opensource ATM, (like the khadas VIM2 bootloader), but at least they are available.

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    Comment #23372753

    Haha, I thought there was another fork going around. Don't worry, we are actively working on Pi4 support, Fuchsia dropped the 3 because they changed the graphics stack to one that …

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    Comment #23370805

    fuchsia.dev?

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    Comment #23370760

    What fork are you referring to?