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by kiicia 5 hours ago
chromium is basically operating system at this point, it lacks kernel and ability to boot independently (added in chromium os), which is both good (from abilities standpoint) and bad (when copy of chromium is bundled with every app that renders webform with text field and button and nothing else)

when it goes about using webapps as desktop apps, native PWA support should be used, it would - in theory at least - lessen most issues electron apps have but will need extra effort and that's why we can't have nice things (like RAM free for other tasks)
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taffydavid 3 hours ago
Chrome OS is literally an operating system that's 90% through chromium
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ignoramous 4 hours ago
> chromium is basically operating system at this point

I get what you're trying to say, but Chromium is far from being an OS. What you could say is, Chromium is as complex as an OS, or is replacing the OS in providing functional libraries atop devices (OS-provided application framework, if you will).

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ayewo 2 hours ago
You are correct. Notwithstanding, people have been expressing the gp's sentiment for like a decade now [1] as is evident in this sub-thread [2], so it's a losing battle trying to prevent people from making such comparisons.

1: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736498

> Just as a data point - Chrome has more code than the linux kernel -

> It's an operating system (pretending to be a browser).

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