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modeless on April 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A top-grossing scam on the App Store

> "Chrome OS is literally Linux" is about as accurate as "Android is literally Linux". Chrome OS is not just some rebadged Debian distro.

It's not rebadged Debian. The default Linux in Chrome OS is literally Debian. It has apt, bash, Wayland, X11. And of course the Linux kernel is there. What more do you want before you call it Linux?

> Do all chromebooks support linux apps now?

According to this page all 2019+ Chromebooks support Linux apps: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...

saagarjha on April 14, 2021 | [–]

Chrome OS is Gentoo based and did not let you install arbitrary Linux apps until relatively recently. I think the comparison is apt.

heavyset_go on April 14, 2021 | [–]

It's a Debian container.

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