[kramerger]

The bad thing about Fuchsiais that it's a Google product.

They may decide to kill it next week and switch to XNU or symbian or templeos and no one would be surprised.

[layer8]

That’s fine as long as it’s open source and a self-contained local piece of software (as Fuchsia is). The problem with Google killing products is that they’re closed source and/or require huge server resources and/or ML models.

[e3bc54b2]

From what I've read Fuschia is not at all self-contained. The UI is fully driven by and targeted towards Google the search and ecosystem.

But those write-ups were years ago and there hasn't been new reviews with much UI focus since then.

[surajrmal]

Operating Systems are not a very well defined subject. Linux doesn't include a UI layer for instance and that isn't considered a problem. Being tied to a particular experience limits the potential applications of the OS, so in many ways I would consider the lack of opinionated experience a good thing.

There is now a UI experience available as part of Fuchsia in the workstation product, but I wouldn't overly index on it as it's just one take on what you could use Fuchsia to build.

[layer8]

You’re probably right, though for an OS that’s the kind of dependency people would prefer to have removed anyway.

[ryandvm]

Google's proclivity for aggressively wiping the spaghetti off the wall is starting to work against it. I think maybe they need to start promising to open source any products they lose interest in.