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ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y
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ChromeOS already supports Flatpaks.
https://flatpak.org/setup/Chrome%20OS
only via crostini which is a crosvm instance (kinda like qemu)
Right, and that’s very easy to set up with the GUI ChromeOS provides.
it may be relatively easy for folk like us, but for the general user I would not consider it so, you also have performance implications as it's running in a VM. even with venus the overhead will always be there, and you wont be able to rid of it until stuff like virtio-native-context is widespread and common. but even then thats just the gpu side, you still have to worry about i/o and memory stuff.
not a good solution