Oh oh, I know the answer to this one! No.
What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait (it makes me want to click elsewhere).
No.
No
That’s just linux with extra steps
You misspelled “enshittification”.
Can’t call yourself a desktop when you can’t even install a .apk without google’s permission
With the way things are going on the mobile Android side and hope Google get fucked.
Android will never be a serious desktop operating system, and the reasons are pretty fundamental. You don’t have admin rights by default, which means you can’t truly control your own machine the way you can with any real desktop OS. Everything has to go through Java interfaces in the end, even when you try to use the NDK for native code. There’s this constant layer of middleware sitting between you and what you actually want to do, adding overhead and limiting what’s really possible.
Compare this to Linux, Windows, or macOS where applications can directly access system resources when needed. You can compile native code that runs at full speed without virtualization layers. You can modify system files, install kernel modules, and actually own your computing environment. Android treats you like a guest on your own device. But the real dealbreaker is the complete lack of proper driver support. Try plugging in a WiFi dongle, a professional scanner, a printer that isn’t mainstream, or a racing wheel. You simply can’t install drivers for custom devices the way you can on Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Android’s driver model is closed and locked to specific devices, not open to the kind of hardware ecosystem that desktop users have always relied on. On a real desktop OS, manufacturers can write drivers, users can compile them, and the community can support obscure hardware for decades. Android doesn’t work that way and never will.
The whole architecture was designed for mobile consumption, not desktop creation. Professional software needs low-level system access and real performance without layers of abstraction getting in the way. Desktop OSes give you real file systems you can navigate freely, package managers or installers that put files where they need to go, and proper background processes. Android hides all of this behind its sandboxed app model. People keep talking about Android on desktops, but bolting on some desktop features doesn’t fix these fundamental architectural problems. It’s a mobile OS, and that’s what it will always be.
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No but I could see SteamOS taking this crown in the long run
Yeah if there will be a new OS pushing into the market, it will be SteamOS.
Might as well just run Linux at that point and if you want android apps, waydroid. The value prop of Chromebooks was supposed to be that you can just factory reset it at any point and log back in
No.
Hopefully not
lol
It’ll be about as significant as chromeos so good for schools while professionaland enthusiast stuck working on them will do so by running regular Linux applications like you do on chromos. I’d say it’s a stronger plus for Linux desktops than Android. Google really can’t get out of their way with their NIH syndrome for desktops. Like 15 years of attempting to do desktop Linux but in a way users likely won’t use the Linux desktop designed and often free software. I’d love to see this introduce people to Digikam, Darktable, Krita, GIMP, Kdenlive at the expense of Google Photos and adobe apps
I hope not!
