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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:16:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

   If you think Ubuntu (or insert any other distro of your choice here) is the worst Linux distro... then remember ChromeOS exists, which is the worst Linux distro out there, crippled by Google with all sorts of things.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:25:23 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     ChromeOS is a cloud OS that just happens to run the Linux kernel. It was created by Google to run web apps and encourages users to use the Google Drive cloud service for storage. There is zero compatibility for running full-fledged Linux apps. It doesn't support GNOME or KDE. The Chrome browser acts as the interface. It is lockdown to death and much less vulnerable to traditional viruses and malware than Windows, Linux or macOS but it's not completely immune to virus/malware/phishing etc

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:30:16 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

     @dougmerritt not really.

   • DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:30:17 JST DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

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     @nixCraft
     Point taken.

     So is there an equivalent to ChromeOS that has nothing to do with Google, and is filled with sunshine instead of mud?

     I don't follow distros but such a thing might be useful.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:34:55 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Codeschubse

     @Codeschubse is that based on fedi? Dman. This is my TIL movement.

   • Codeschubse (codeschubse@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:34:57 JST Codeschubse

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     @nixCraft That's why I don't count ChromeOS as a Linux distro just like I don't count truth.social as part of the Fediverse. ChromeOS is to Linux what truth.social is to the Fediverse.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:35:40 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Draken BlackKnight

     @drakenblackknight haha. what about https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ ?

   • Draken BlackKnight (drakenblackknight@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:35:41 JST Draken BlackKnight

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     @nixCraft
     Red Star OS exists.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:46:51 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • bazkie, washed up nerd

     @bazkie true.

   • bazkie, washed up nerd (bazkie@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:46:53 JST bazkie, washed up nerd

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     @nixCraft Also I would feel very weird escaping Microsoft, only to replace it with another dystopian mega-corporation OS 😂

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:47:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Jacco van Schaik

     @jaccovanschaik they provide source code https://chromium.googlesource.com/?format=HTML

   • Jacco van Schaik (jaccovanschaik@mastodon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 05:47:43 JST Jacco van Schaik

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     @nixCraft Do they run a vanilla kernel, but with their userland locked-down? Because running a modified kernel without providing source code would be a pretty big GPL violation I would think.

   • Ten-Thousand Bees (very_silly_goober@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 16:51:46 JST Ten-Thousand Bees

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     @nixCraft take a look at fydeOS, chromeOS based distro. Linux with native android app support