Thread 106995879

>Google is continuing to slowly tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS, and now Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is getting in on the action. He says he’s seen a version of the software, and that he “can’t wait to have one.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/784381/qualcomm-ceo-seen-googles-android-pc-merger-incredible

It's happening next year and Google will take over the Linux space with their distro. Windows will finally have a Linux-based alternative that doesn't suck and people will flock to it from Windows and thus, many Linux distros will see no point in trying to compete with Google and just GIVE UP.

Which distros and DE's will fall as soon as Google builds the OS that Linux developers should have made a decade ago?

I predict:

>Xfeces DE will die
>Elementary OS will die
>Zorin OS will die
>Manjaro and all Arch-fronts will die
>MX Linux will die
>(Name)buntu Spins will die
>Fedora Spins will die (focus on KDE and Gnome only!)
>KDE and Gnome will become less popular than they are now.

Bonus: BSD will have a revival because /g/ will say Linux is "not cool anymore" since Google brought the Linux desktop to the masses

>>106995879 (OP)
>Linux on the desktop but you can't install apps from outside the Play Store
coal

chromeos already existed

surely google won't axe this project 5 years from now. surely they can finally be trusted with your loyalty. surely this is the run.

>>106995879 (OP)
All Linux distros will be at risk of lack of interest when this happens, including Ubuntu, because it is based on a larger platform aka Debian

>>106995879 (OP)
This will not cater to any of my needs.

>>106996003
usecase for your needs?

>>106996003
>This will not cater to any of my needs.
we'll see about that

>>106995879 (OP)
I remember your schizo rambling before, and it is an unmanageable pile of shit with so many wrong keypoints based on nothing so it is easier to tell you to go suck some dicks. I will not do it tho. Take the pills.

>BSD will have a revival
templeos

>>106995879 (OP)
>Which distros and DE's will fall
Almost all of them.
Why would I use Ubuntu when I can use a real desktop?

>>106995879 (OP)
I'm sticking with windows 10 iot ltsc and hopefully an actual windows clone (the best OS) will be released. I hate microsoft, I hate linux, I hate google, I hate apple.

>>106995879 (OP)
Thanks, but I'll stick to Illumos on my home server and Haiku on my PC

>>106995879 (OP)
None of them because any Google OS is going to be closed source and loaded with telemetry and other Google spyware cancer, and it WILL get enshittified as Google chases more profits from the project. People use Linux to get away from that.

>>106995879 (OP)
Chrome OS had been a thing for a long time.
Android mini PC-s and STB-s had been a thing for a long time.

Neither killed any Linux distro at all.

Why would merger do?

>>106996192
>None of them because any Google OS is going to be closed source
How do you know? Oh wait you dont lol.
Only Play Services will be closed.

>>106996219
>>Neither killed any Linux distro at all.
>
>Why would merger do?
It's never been sold in stores
It's never been available to all PCs
It's never had official support
This will change everything. Windows is finally going to lose marketshare to Linux.

>>106995879 (OP)
>Souped up Chromebook OS
Lol. Lmao even.
>>106996336
Oh you mean the same people who are trying to kill installing your own software on your own phone? Yeah, really committing to those open-source principles

>>106996336
If it's really going to be open source, then other distros can just take the good parts and include them in their distros without including all of the Google spyware and adware cancer (which any Google OS will 100% be full of, and you know it).
Google is a data collection and advertising company. Any software they release to the public ultimately serves to that end

>>106995954
If it's all FOSS we could see desktop versions of GrapheneOS, LineageOS etc.

>>106996336
No more AOSP updates in a few months now. Android IS closed source

>>106995879 (OP)
I don't think a good number of Linux users are suddenly going to think Google is anything but the devil OP.

>>106995879 (OP)
None of them.
This is the same company that's going to force all developers to authenticate with government issued IDs to publish apps and limiting users to only being able to install apps from verified developers.
Why would any existing Linux users ditch their current distros and switch to goolag?

>>106996117
>hopefully an actual windows clone (the best OS) will be released.
hahahahaa you are delusional and you will end up using a fork of the Google OS

>>106996376
>Oh you mean the same people who are trying to kill installing your own software on your own phone?
Won't happen because of anti-monopoly laws. This is why Microsoft and Apple never tried this.

>>106996513
>No more AOSP updates in a few months now. Android IS closed source
Fake news. Pixel-specific code will be closed from now on because it's a Google product. OEMs need AOSP to make phones.

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-project-pixel-change/

>>106996544
>I don't think a good number of Linux users are suddenly going to think Google is anything but the devil OP.
They all use Android phones and they will soon switch to the Google desktop minus Play Services.

>>106995879 (OP)
Will be DOA by the time it comes out. Nobody wants a locked down desktop OS like MacOS but worse than MacOS

>>106996609
>This is the same company that's going to force all developers to authenticate with government issued IDs to publish apps and limiting users to only being able to install apps from verified developers.
Anti-monopoly laws will shut that shit down

>>106996783
I sincerely doubt that. The US is too hands-off to care about minor things like anti-monopoly laws. Meanwhile, this is exactly what EU needs to enforce their upcoming chat control laws where all private communications need to be scanned for harmful content, so we're not going to do shit about it either.
>but chat control just got repealed
Yes, once again. And it'll be back, again and again until it gets passed.

>>106995879 (OP)
>literal who distros will die
Outside of MX linux I think this will be the case, only distros that will remain will either have to bring something new to the table (void, artix, guix) or have staying power (debian, ubuntu/mint, fedora, arch).
>death of XFCE
Why? I get that it's redundant since MATE exists but still.
>KDE and GNOME get less popular
KDE will actually rise as GNOME keeps imploding but overall I think bulky DEs are on their way out. WMs and lightweight DEs like LXQT/LXDE are the future for serious Linux users.
>BSD will have a revival
this is inevitable
>>106996003
It will cater to grade schools, they are filled with chromebooks.
>>106996117
>an actual windows clone
baby duck award, and this is someone who'd kill to use win7 again (my CPU is too new for it).

>>106996902
privacy laws are a thing like anti-monopoly laws. they won't make it stick.
otherwise, apple and microsoft would have done it long ago.

>>106995879 (OP)
>BSD will have a revival
The good distros that will survive Linux enshittification were already BSD-like.

>>106995879 (OP)
Slop feeds off of slop. Nothing will die.

It will be the end of the "GNU + Linux" faggotry? GNU is kill?

>>106996698
Only because there hasn't been a good enough Linux phone yet.

>>106996984
No more GNU's Not Unix Linux. Now it's just Not Unix Linux vs. Unix Linux

>>106996642
>>106996783
>dude the company that has to be compelled by law to not lock down their system will totally replace Linux

>>106996685
I'm talking about the missing QPR1 source code and the monthly security updates. These are only available to OEMs now, not published to AOSP. AOSP is dead.

Such things already exist

https://fydeos.io/
https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/

>>106995879 (OP)
Why would I use AndroidOS on PC when Linux
>Can play near every Windows games
>Has functioning drivers
>Isn't locked down
>Can customize DEs however you want
Android would look same or worse flatshit as Windows with much more limitations.

>>106995879 (OP)
did the chromebooks led to the death of any linux distro? there's your answer

>>106997157
Not a true desktop like OP is discussing

>>106996501
>locked bootloader's in your path

>>106996783
>digital ID's in your path

>>106996501
>installing your own OS to replace the stock shitty corpo OS
Then what's the point? You're back at square one, now GrapheneOS and LineageOS have to compete with every Linux distro.

>>106997393
>did the chromebooks led to the death of any linux distro? there's your answer
Chromebooks aren't running a desktop OS like this one is, stupid retard.

>>106995879 (OP)
The only way they could compete is if they made deals with OEMs and get it to PCs all over the world. Like they did with chromebooks but in a massive scale.
Also this >>106997296
If they really want to succeed they need to do the opposite of what they're planning, to make Android open and accessible to users and devs instead of closing it down and be a shittier macOS.

>>106997628
>The only way they could compete is if they made deals with OEMs and get it to PCs all over the world
You'd have to be stupid if you think they aren't already doing that. The OP's article says they literally showed it to the Qualcomm CEO. It's happening.

>>106997554
and? android isn't one either

>>106997296
>Why would I use AndroidOS on PC when Linux
>>Can play near every Windows games
So will this. It's a Windows replacement.
>>Has functioning drivers
It's Linux-based, dummy. Plus OEM support will be even better now.
>>Isn't locked down
Only if you run Play Services
>>Can customize DEs however you want
Lol do you really think any of those DE like GNOME you have will be better than the desktop this will have?

>>106997646
>and? android isn't one either
Android literally killed all the smartphone OS's
This Android + ChromeOS merger is their attempt at taking Windows and Mac marketshare and it will probably end up taking Windows by far.

>>106997636
>You'd have to be stupid if you think they aren't already doing that
it's google we're talkiing about.
>The OP's article says they literally showed it to the Qualcomm CEO
I don't trust qualcomm to do anything useful really. What we need is an x86 OS that is compatible with most software, not just ARM stuff.

>>106997661
you're literally hallucinating right now bro. This shit OS will be just a shitty locked down Android which will probably be abandoned in a couple years.

>>106997680
>What we need is an x86 OS that is compatible with most software, not just ARM stuff.
Anon, are you stupid? This is a Linux-based OS based on ChromeOS (which is a Gentoo-based distro that was stripped down to basics) and Android. It will run on EVERY THING. It will run on Intel, AMD, ARM and someday, RISC.

>>106997704
>This shit OS will be just a shitty locked down Android which will probably be abandoned in a couple years.
You're stupid if you don't realize this will take half of Windows marketshare in a decade or so. It might even take more than that.
We may see it become the top desktop OS.
1) Google's distro
2) Windows
3) MacOS

>>106997676
Android has no productivity apps

>>106997711
>Anon, are you stupid?
I might be, but I'm sure the jeets at jewgle will fuck it up somehow.
>this will take half of Windows marketshare in a decade
source: *hits the blunt*

>>106997847
>Android has no productivity apps
This is a desktop OS based on Linux, ChromeOS and Android. It will run all the productivity apps that you run on Linux, including Libreoffice.

>>106997866
>source: *hits the blunt*
Lol remember when you guys said years that Android will be "abandoned" by Google?
Now you all use Android phones and every smartphone OS except iOS and Android is dead.
The same will happen to the desktop, except Windows will survive. Microsoft has been preparing for this.

>>106995879 (OP)
MX won't die, it still supports 32bit systems.

>>106997884
>Linux,
apps won't run without GNU
> ChromeOS and Android
don't have useful apps

>>106998276
>don't have useful apps
It will run Android, Chrome and Linux apps.

It's literally Android on laptops

>>106996501
>desktop versions of GrapheneOS
Why in the FUCK would anybody want this?

>>106998528
>It's literally Android on laptops
No, stupid. It's ChromeOS merged with Android to make a full desktop OS that competes with Windows and Mac.

>>106996984
No that's the Rust uutils being shipped with Ubuntu instead of gnu coreutils.

>>106996501
>desktop versions of GrapheneOS
We already have this, it's called SecureBlue.

>>106997296
Linux is inherently far less secure than Android, ChromeOS, macOS, iOS and even Windows. Having an "AndroidOS desktop edition" is a much safer/secure choice for your average normie.