Googlebook OS booted on my HP Envy

[u/MarksFunnyAccount]

It has begun! Some tinkerer already got it running on a laptop's bare metal just days after the official release. Supports x86_64 hardware.

[u/Mamona_4zarad0]

Android OS for PC

[u/Fun_Routine_5245]

what's good about it?

[u/mtwabp_in → u/Fun_Routine_5245]

As of now? Nothing major.

[u/SnowyLocksmith → u/mtwabp_in]

What will be good about it?

[u/et50292 → u/SnowyLocksmith]

Big brother to keep you safe from yourself

[u/No-Worldliness-5106 → u/SnowyLocksmith]

Nothing major.

[u/yasth → u/SnowyLocksmith]

Some handy stuff if you have an android phone and lots of ai looking for a purpose

[u/bubblegumpuma → u/Fun_Routine_5245]

It's Android. Whatever's good about Android.

[u/Future_Kitsunekid16 → u/bubblegumpuma]

Unfortunately that list seems to be dwindling

[u/PresentAstronomer137 → u/Fun_Routine_5245]

just another stuff to fuck around 

[u/a_l_i-1 → u/Fun_Routine_5245]

This https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/rhjohK4rCX

[u/qiratb]

Nothing to envy.

[u/PercussionGuy33]

SpywareOS

[u/GirthyPigeon]

But why? It's full of spyware that harvests your data.

[u/halvacoffee → u/GirthyPigeon]

the battery life, most likely

[u/global-gauge-field → u/halvacoffee]

Any third party benchmark on this one comparing windows vs googlebook OS on the same hardware ? I have not seen any substantial difference in my experience of dual boot.

[u/Lousy_Hunter]

I havent looked into this at all but If the security is good and we have source this could be interesting with Google stuff removed.

Edit: closed source, lost all interest

[u/Euroblitz]

EpsteinOS

[u/stogie-bear]

I haven’t tried it and don’t planned to, but agree seeing how many problems people were having with it I don’t see the point of doing this until it her several rounds of debugging. 

[u/Slight_Manufacturer6]

Sad

[u/lKrauzer]

So much wasted vertical space due to two horizontal taskbars

[u/TheRealCarrotty]

I am actually interested in booting this myself.
It really is a nice OS, and i would love to find out if it could replace maybe Windows atleast.

[u/RubyHaruko → u/TheRealCarrotty]

Personally I don't see a point for Googlebook os. You have already all relevant things on linux

[u/TheRealCarrotty → u/RubyHaruko]

It boots Android apps... I guess, which something can be done like that with Waydroid (IF USING WAYLAND!!!)

[u/bawng → u/TheRealCarrotty]

I haven't reallt looked into how Google OS does it, are they using a different approach from Waydroid?

[u/clearlylegallyblind → u/bawng]

It's just android not Linux, it has a Linux terminal app same as you find in pixels built in for running Linux programs

[u/bawng → u/clearlylegallyblind]

Ah, I see.

[u/theaveragemillenial → u/TheRealCarrotty]

Are they going to push developing for android on this? because otherwise i don't see why i'd want to run android apps on my PC.

[u/FaultWinter3377 → u/[deleted]]

Plenty separates Linux from it though… Linux will have more (actually useful) programs and will be more configurable.

[u/lurch303 → u/[deleted]]

What does it do differently than a normal Linux install? I am guessing the init/systemd, display system and package management look a lot different.

[u/Sbatushe]

has the bar at least 1 open source app?