Panic-Driven Engineering (The "Me-Too" Strategy): Google used to set the standard for the industry (MapReduce, Android’s foundations, Kubernetes, Transformers). Now, they are reactionary. Because Microsoft and OpenAI threatened their core search monopoly, Google is rushing half-baked, unoptimized software layers to the market just to appease Wall Street shareholders.
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#992I believe that the change from cfs scheduler to eevdf scheduler will give a great boost to desktop applications based on linux kernel and this will be a great help for google, steamos and so on .
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#993So, I'm only slightly trying to be a smartass here, but... Who is this for? They are marketing what is ostensibly a computer for people who seem to not want to use a computer in scenarios that I don't think even exist. Beyond that, this is a laptop that is running a really shitty, 'apps only, no you cannot do anything useful with this' operating system. I have an awful lot of complaints about MacOS's relatively restr…
No idea. The people that have no need to run real software and want a high end device probably have an iPad with a keyboard case. Those that want a low end device have a chromebook. This thing will be killed early 2028...
I am old enough to remember the chromebook is dead rumours of ...let me think... every years since it was introduced?
I personally would prefer a good chromebook to an ipad+cramped keyboard but I guess people are different
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#994Awful branding aside this will be dead within 3 years. MacBook neo @ $499 and the ability to finance it leaves almost zero room in the US market for an Android laptop. *edit It looks like will be a ChromeOS successor and their demographic will be schools?
People like you doomsayed Chromebooks too. And?
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#995If they sell one with a track point I might consider switching.
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#996Earlier quoted context omitted.
> MacOS's relatively restrictive use cases I’m very curious what you mean by this.
I mean a lot. I purpose left it vague because I fear unpacking it is going to turn into the worst parts of a reddit thread, something that I would definitely be contributing to myself. The big bullet points though are: • Apple has crazy opinions about hardware • And increasingly crazy opinions about what software you can put on it. • And goes out of it's way to not work with open standards because 'fuck you'. So exam…
Where are you getting the information that only signed apps are allowed on macOS? macOS will, just like windows, issue a scary warning when running a program of unknown origin, sure, but there’s no indication of just letting macOS open it anyway going away. As much as the quality of Apple’s software is declining, the macs are not getting more restrictive
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#997Is this the Android desktop based which was leaked quite a few times? I feel the discussion here is overly negative. Android finally having an official desktop mode is good for competition. Windows is dropping the ball with each release, Macs need some good competition.
I agree, especially if an open-source project comes to prosper downstream of it like GrapheneOS prospers downstream of AOSP.
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#998Would prefer a 'Google Linux'—a native desktop OS with a unified UI philosophy, similar to a macOS experience but built on a standard Linux foundation. Instead of ChromeOS or Android as the base, treat them as subsystems for compatibility. The real 'next big thing' would be integrating an engine like Gemini with OS-level hooks (similar to the OpenClaw approach) so agents can manipulate app windows and state directly.…
They would never build something so open.
Android and Chromium are literally open-source my guy. Google is the biggest contributor to the Linux kernel.
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#999So this is essentially Android desktop mode with Android 17 Gemini integration. Please get rid of that top panel. I just don't get why this and desktops like GNOME tries to copy macos top panel when clearly in macos it is menu bar that host app menus but that concept doesn't exists in these other desktops and yet they have a top panel. This is just bad UX. This will follow same model as Chromebooks i.e different devi…
To counter my own "against top panel" argument, one thing that the top panel does is that it enables you to auto hide the app panel/dock and yet have the ability to see things like date/time and other information on the top panel.
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#1000Would prefer a 'Google Linux'—a native desktop OS with a unified UI philosophy, similar to a macOS experience but built on a standard Linux foundation. Instead of ChromeOS or Android as the base, treat them as subsystems for compatibility. The real 'next big thing' would be integrating an engine like Gemini with OS-level hooks (similar to the OpenClaw approach) so agents can manipulate app windows and state directly.…
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