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what do linuxers think of crostini?? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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for those who dont know, crostini is a feature available for chromeos that lets you install a debian container and has a cute terminal and lets you install linux software (can be from flathub, github, etc!!! woa!!). i love it so much and use it daily for programming python on my chromebook and crostini is what i mean when i say that google loves open source and linux, they know debian is the greatest and they use gentoo to make chromeos

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anything that supports Flatpaks is good in my book. The more things that use Flatpaks, the more companies see them as worth supporting for their products. Improved Flatpak support and adoption really helps "traditional" distros like Mint, which can use the same software without modification.

I wouldn't say they "love" open source though. IMO it's like Microsoft where it's more of a political move to make themselves seem better. Recently, in some areas, Google has been trying to clamp down on people daring to run software they don't approve on their devices.

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google has been trying to clamp down on people daring to run software they don’t approve on their devices.

"Google" isn't. ChromeOS is actually providing more and more flexibility then ever. Android however is the exact opposite. One must keep in mind that google isn't some monolithic company, it's very fractured and has many independent teams, the best showcase of this is JXL. 3/4 top contributors to libjxl are google employees, and yet chromium decided to remove JXL support citing bogus reasons generated by obviously flawed testing and analysis.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is hosting JXL images because we don’t support JXL so we removed JXL before we launched it since no one was using it. #chromelogic

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

not to mention the totally bogus comparison they preformed which is an insult to anyone who has a even an inkling into how image metrics and comparisons work and more then 30sec to compare