Spyke
Iteriareply
sh.itjust.works

It's not good. Sometimes the only computer a kid has is a chromebook because their parents got it for them for school. I'm seeing more and people just don't have computers at all. PC isn't moving fluidly to the next generation as a result. I've told parents about steam deck hoping they'll pick that as their kid's game console, but it's not as easy as when I was a kid where you just had a computer anyway and it was about if it could play the game you wanted to play. With the indie scene that concern when away a lot, but now a lot of kids just don't have PCs

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imbluereply
feddit.org

It's really easy well documented how to install postmarket-os on chrome books, as described here: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wikiCategory:ChromeOS . Go and be the person that empowers these kids and transforms their computer into a machine they can use and modify in any way they like, instead of remaining mere recipients of the actions of some billion dollar company

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JoeyJoeJoeJrreply
lemmy.ml

Having daily driven Windows (~6 years growing up), MacOS (8+ years for work), Linux (~18 years on personal and (some) work machines), and ChromeOS (~2 years, on a cheap Chromebook used while I was traveling places I didn't want to take an expensive machine), if my options were Windows, MacOS, or ChromeOS, I would 100% take ChromeOS. Even on cheap hardware, it was a better user experience than the others... Though I will caveat that with: when I had to do work that required heavy lifting, I remoted into my Linux desktop. But that was a hardware limitation, rather than a software limitation.

For people who know what they're doing, I recommend traditional Linux. For those who don't, I recommend ChromeOS. Mac and Windows are both also run by mega corps, they're all spying on users... at least ChromeOS is performant and stable.

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woelkchenreply
lemmy.world

ChromeOS moves from a Gentoo-derived base that’s relatively close to desktop Linux to Android. Google wrote a technology that lets Linux X11 applications work with ChromeOS‘s display stack. Seems this is not a priority to be ported over.

Edit [2025-08-10]: I need to correct myself. According to https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/ support for Wayland support is in development. I don't know how much it matured in the months since that article. No idea if / how well it's supported on X86, though, which is a requirement for Steam.

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kbalreply
fedia.io

It's a pretty big change then... They should call it ChromeOS/2 or something.

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Dultasreply
lemmy.world

Now you've got me wanting to try and run OS/2 Warp in a VM.

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JoeyJoeJoeJrreply
lemmy.ml

Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?

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