Google Starts Rolling Out Native Linux Terminal to Android Devices

palata · 2025-03-10T12:20:40 1741609240

I don't get it. What's the point of running Debian inside Android? Like what does it bring, really?

thesuperbigfrog · 2025-03-10T12:52:14 1741611134

Google plans to deprecate ChromeOS in favor of Android:

ChromeOS runs sandboxed Linux via Crostini:

ChromeOS also runs Android apps since the ChromeOS app store was essentially deprecated.

For Android to replace ChromeOS it needs to be able to run sandboxed Linux similar to the way ChromeOS does.

palata · 2025-03-10T12:56:00 1741611360

Oh, this makes sense, thanks!

I don't really get why people would want to use ChromeOS, but that's another topic :-).

actionfromafar · 2025-03-10T12:23:05 1741609385

Debian.

palata · 2025-03-10T12:43:29 1741610609

Thanks for the constructive answer. Why would Google care? And if you do, why don't you install Debian directly instead of Android?

I understand how it's fun. But fun is not a reason to put resources into pushing something into production.

rbanffy · 2025-03-10T15:24:31 1741620271

> Why would Google care?

A lot of Googlers use ChromeBooks and some of them might want it because ChromeOS is going to be replaced by Android.

> why don't you install Debian directly instead of Android?

Lack of Android applications?

actionfromafar · 2025-03-10T14:20:35 1741616435

Sorry. We got a good answer thankfully by thesuperbigfrog. :)