I think ChromeOS is much closer to desktop Linux than Android is. Among other things, I have seen more contributions overall from ChromeOS guys than from Android guys, despite the huge differences in user numbers.
Wasn’t pretty much every battery-preserving feature made by android kernel devs? Android is just no longer in its early days to need bit kernel changes.
I absolutely disagree. The early Android was using a very simplistic approach to powersaving that was not only not a good fit compared to what desktop Linux was using, but also disagreed with the previous work that had been done for Linux from other vendors (e.g. TI).
Android did not start the craze of Linux on devices, they just surfed on it...