All the google chromebooks launching this year 2019 will be based on Linux right out of the box, its actually a great news for chromebook owners.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
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looks like google is a big fan of linux
Chrome OS is already Linux based, as is Android. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the subject, people tend to get "Linux" and "GNU Linux desktop operating system" confused. It would be more accurate to say that 2019 Chromebooks will support running Debian apps.
Of course, to make matters even more confusing, there's the whole CPU architecture angle to fret about. Idk what the statistics are but it seems a fair bet that many of these upcoming devices will have ARM CPUs, which means any binary you want to run on them will need to be compiled specifically for ARM. Unless the operating system has some kind of x86 emulation, which for slightly more complicated reasons will result in BAD performance.
Seems like the tech industry is trying to move towards an ARM based future, it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.