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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Re: Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Post by mikece »

I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?

Re: Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Post by What2159 »

For cloud programming, I find ChromeOs linux performance to be perfectly acceptable. The price penalty on Apple products is too high.

I also HATED the fact that I has to give Apple my credit card to get it to work. Apple treats your laptop like it owns it. I was unable to delete Itunes and had to sign Terms of Service that I didn't want.

Re: Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Post by bombcar »

mikece wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?

People who want that can get any number of Linuxes - and ChromeOS exists on new devices for cheap as almost free.

There's really no market there.

See also: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ (Today I learned that ChromeOS is somewhat dependent on Portage from Gentoo)

Re: Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Post by theanonymousone »

mikece wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?

I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but it seems to me that ChromeOS Flex ticks all your boxes.

I use it regularly, on two Fujitsu and Lenovo laptops, neither being Chromebooks (hence your last requirement - the rest are available also in ChromeOS "proper").

Re: Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines

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Post by alamortsubite »

mikece wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?

Sounds interesting, but I'm curious what you think the upside would be for Google.
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