[batrachos]

> Ideally, the Linux desktop world would just split in half, so that there can be a clean separation between these two ideals.

Isn't that basically what's happening already?

ChromeOS and Android Linuces on the one side, GNU/Linux (sorry Stallman haters) on the other...

[phendrenad2]

ChromeOS and Android don't run on regular desktop or laptop PCs, at least not without a heroic amount of hacking and configuration.

[_-david-_]

ChromeOS is heading that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350860