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Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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This is different (and far less practical than Apple's approach). This one doesn't download the OS and store it, it pulls the files from Google drive every time they're accessed, so it's incredibly slow by comparison, but is technically running from the cloud. The Apple one downloads everything it needs and stores it, then pulls from that local copy.
I was also adding to the discussion. You commented something it reminded you of, I commented the difference between the two. This may be an important point for those who are not familiar with either of these technologies.
Yeah it's very common unfortunately. I didn't intend to undermine your contribution or anything. Sorry for that regardless.