Oh oh, I know the answer to this one! No.
What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait (it makes me want to click elsewhere).
There’s an axiom that every single news headline on the internet that ends in a question to the reader can be accurately answered with “no”.
Betteridge’s law
Can’t call yourself a desktop when you can’t even install a .apk without google’s permission
I dunno why everyone is so skeptical.
If it does Android apps, it’s got everything ‘normal’ users could want. It’s got a massively anticompetitive megacorp behind it. It’s ‘lean’ and runs on cheap computers and is compatible with work stuff. And it doesn’t bork itself with spam like Windows does.
…How could it not catch on?
99% of the population doesn’t actively seek out modularity of privacy, many don’t really know concepts like filesystems, URLs or desktops anyway. They get what’s cheapest in Best Buy, and that’s about to be Android laptops, if Google desires that.
They already tried it with Chromebooks.
