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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Can't call yourself a desktop when you can't even install a .apk without google's permission

[-] Goretantath@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago
[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Oh oh, I know the answer to this one! No.

[-] Robin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's just linux with extra steps

[-] Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

You misspelled "enshittification".

[-] 1984@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

With the way things are going on the mobile Android side and hope Google get fucked.

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I guess there is a market for those who wants notebooks deeply buried in some hellish corporate walled garden. Not me, though.

[-] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago
[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Nope. Google didn't get anywhere with ChromeOS and it's unlikely they'll get anywhere with this.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

No it's not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It's not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

But Google can't control Linux. They can control Android. That's the only reason they're pushing it.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago
[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

🤣

no

🤣

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I dunno why everyone is so skeptical.

If it does Android apps, it's got everything 'normal' users could want. It's got a massively anticompetitive megacorp behind it. It's 'lean' and runs on cheap computers and is compatible with work stuff. And it doesn't bork itself with spam like Windows does.

...How could it not catch on?

99% of the population doesn't actively seek out modularity of privacy, many don't really know concepts like filesystems, URLs or desktops anyway. They get what's cheapest in Best Buy, and that's about to be Android laptops, if Google desires that.

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