Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
While this would definitely be useful and make linux software more accessible, I’m worried about something similar to Android’s Google Play Services eventually happening where almost every piece of software, despite being for an open source operating system, depends on proprietary google software
As long as you have a Crostini-capable ChromeOS device, you can run flatpacks. This is actually the preferred way to run Firefox (via the Linux Flatpack).
Flatpak is still in the packager teething stage - it’s going to be a couple/few years before all of the packaging and permission kinks are worked out. There’s already progress, I’m spending a lot less time unfucking flatpak permissions with flatseal than I was in 2019.
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While this would definitely be useful and make linux software more accessible, I’m worried about something similar to Android’s Google Play Services eventually happening where almost every piece of software, despite being for an open source operating system, depends on proprietary google software
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As long as you have a Crostini-capable ChromeOS device, you can run flatpacks. This is actually the preferred way to run Firefox (via the Linux Flatpack).
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The virtual machine adds valuable security isolation with hardly any performance penalty. What’s the drawback?
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And not spy me across the OS, which it probably will.
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IMO you’re just better off using Debian with their DE directly, then. ChromeOS doesn’t provide anything extra, just a different DE.
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When I tried it, it seemed like mostly just Debian with another DE, but maybe I/you haven’t tried it recently enough…
Also,
It’s literally Linux.
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Flatpak is still in the packager teething stage - it’s going to be a couple/few years before all of the packaging and permission kinks are worked out. There’s already progress, I’m spending a lot less time unfucking flatpak permissions with flatseal than I was in 2019.