This complaint feels like 2009 again. It was entertaining to me the period of time of younger people complaining about millennial grey/beige. A complete rejection of millennial minimalism to make way for popping colors and crowded tables of purchased knick knacks. Now it’s back to minimalism, spending won’t make you happy. Whatever the latest cope trend is
More like it just needs a company to grow as a non-server OS vendor. Intel dual core era as the Ultrabook is long over as well as the spinning disk HDD laptop era. The bottom performance is incredibly good now for what chromebooks are meant for. No we don’t need a new ChromeOS or a new FirefoxOS. Web apps have not displaced native applications on desktop nor mobile nor television. They all coexist.
Stop acting like users need something as handholdy and restrictive as ChromeOS. People can do as they’ve done for decades, use the web browser if thats all they wanted with a laptop/desktop. And recent times, they can stick to the pre-installed application store. Its life exists as an easy to manage/restrict solution for primary schools. It’s literally on the path to deprecation for a standard Android desktop mode. Chasing ChromeOS is chasing a design that its backing company isn’t even hiding their plans to replace
The most popular desktop OS that individuals choose to buy is Windows. The second is MacOS. Why would you target a ChromeOS analogue rather than just improve a standard Linux’s fleet management software? Far third place is not the model to aspire too. It did not succeed how Google wanted. It’s high end Chromebooks did not lead to them being competitive with MacBooks. It did not bloom a great software ecosystem of ChromeOS specific applications.
On desktop people browse the Internet with Chrome and Firefox. They play video games off Steam. Kids want to get into art. They edit videos with Davinci Resolve, Premiere Pro. They grow up wanting to get into video games studios regardless of how ill advised that is. They learn after affects, blender, FL studio, krita, Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign, Maya, etc. Some want to learn tech stuff. They’ll learn podman/docker, they’ll learn how to program, they’ll learn verilog or something. 3D printers, again desktop software to model stuff to print.
Desktops don’t need to be mobile OSs with windowing applications. People haven’t seemed to want that. They buy Windows and Mac’s. Peoples primary Internet browsers are their phones. Chasing ChromeOS is like trying to pitch a revolutionary idea for the desktop in 2010
Here’s what would be good. A company focusing on OS support for other companies general consumer hardware devices. Focus on streamlining Flatpak permission management. Maybe like Fedora atomic distros in structure. Company focuses on bug fixes regarding hardware support and capability to distribute driver updates as they come in. That will earn hardware platform wins for the OS. That will lead to more famous commercial software to port over
Really emphasize that chasing ChromeOS or FirefoxOS is a waste of time. The casual user is on mobile. The laptop/desktop market is work - school or professional, high hardware requirement entertainment like games, aspirational stuff like professional creation software
At least it’s a practice what you preach example. I know far more people that love to preach and the attention it gives them and then mostly does the exact opposite. Sometimes so much to the opposite that they’re more predatory than things/people they preach against