• markstos@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Gimp already runs OK on ChromeOS, so I would expect the same on Android soon.

    Because Linux runs in VM on ChromeOS, there were some annoyances and there will likely be some on Android.

    Maybe they fixed it, but for a long time Linux on ChromeOS couldn’t access Yubikeys because Google choose not to expose those devices to the container.

    And some keyboard shortcuts and mappings couldn’t work because again Google limited what the container was allowed to see and control.

    And if certain kinds of problems happened, you ended losing both the apps and your data inside the Linux container.

    Yeah, it will be cool to run desktop Linux from your phone. But if doing Real Linux Work on Chromebook doesn’t appeal to you, don’t expect it to be better on Android.