ChromeOS vs Linux: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Linux Today

ChromeOS vs Linux: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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MH
Matt Hartley
Sep 22, 2014

Anyone who believes Google isn’t “making a play” for desktop users isn’t paying attention. In recent years, I’ve seen ChromeOS making quite a splash on the Google Chromebook. Exploding with popularity on sites such as Amazon.com, it looks as if ChromeOS could be unstoppable. In this article, I’m going to look at ChromeOS as a concept to market, how it’s affecting Linux adoption and whether or not it’s a good/bad thing for the Linux community as a whole. Plus, I’ll talk about the biggest issue of all and how no one is doing anything about it.

MH

Matt Hartley

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