Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI

I didn't know Aura was making such progress until my buddy got it on his CR48. I'm tempted to remove Ubuntu and reinstall crOS to use it longer, but I also still really appreciate my full Ubuntu environment.

If I recall correctly, Aura also serves as a real proper full window manager and already has support for Wayland too!

I agree, especially about the Atom processor This computer is mid priced. Other laptops in that price range use real CPUs.

The "All-Web" paradigm is coming, folks. And it really doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, or your Android, or Windows phone. Native apps are toast, in the long run. Your data is moving to the cloud -- your pictures, your music, your movies, and every document you write. It's all going up there, and local hard drives will be history within 3 years. And what that means is ALL software is heading there too. Native apps running locally on your computer are going to be thing of the past, and it simply blows my mind that even people here on HackerNews completely fail to understand this fact.

The computing landscape is changing right now, and any company that revolves around servicing Windows desktop software is going to be in for a real hard time.

Whether or not Google's Chrome OS is the eventual successor is not clear (I don't think it is), but their general idea is correct. The all-network, all-cloud world is coming whether you like it or not.

i've been using the first gen chromebooks since they came out and have to say that the UI is a lot better than before. it felt like you could not escape the browser unless you closed all your tabs or shut it off, but with aura you feel at home with a "desktop" experience that just seems right.

the hardware is another story...they're great for light browsing and netflix...kinda.