[EvanAnderson]

> ChromeOS is not just Linux.

I am familiar with Google's walled garden w/ ChromeOS. I didn't mean to give the impression that I was not.

It's "just Linux" in the sense that it has the same Boolean kernel mode/user mode separation that NT has. ChromeOS doesn't take advantage of the other processor protection rings, for example. A bad kernel driver can crash ChromeOS just as easily as NT can be crashed.

Hopefully Google just doesn't push bad kernel drivers. Crowdstrike can't, of course, because of the walled garden. That also means you can't add a kernel driver for useful hardware, either. That limits the usefulness of ChromeOS devices for general purpose tasks.

[danans]

> That also means you can't add a kernel driver for useful hardware, either. That limits the usefulness of ChromeOS devices for general purpose tasks.

It's target market isn't niche hardware but rather the plethora of use cases that use bog standard hardware, much like many of the use cases that CS broke a few days ago.

[EvanAnderson]

Yes. I said that in a post up-thread. Google is making the market mold itself to their offering, rather than being like Microsoft and molding their offering to the market. Google is content to grow their market share that way.