Am I better off running a GNU/Linux distro over ChromeOS? If so, why?

• ublue

  98 135 0.7 Shell

  A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

the immutable desktops offered by Fedora; which would be Silverblue, Kinoite and Sericea (special mention goes to uBlue)

• silverblue-site

  39 44 3.8 HTML

  Discontinued Historic website for Fedora Silverblue. Now at https://gitlab.com/fedora/websites-apps/fedora-websites/fedora-websites-3.0

  

the immutable desktops offered by Fedora; which would be Silverblue, Kinoite and Sericea (special mention goes to uBlue)

• WorkOS

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• sodalite

  13 190 9.1 Shell

  🪨 A Pantheon experience for rpm-ostree

  

For the Pantheon desktop environment, I'd instead recommend Fedora Sodalite.

• bubblewrap

  75 3,641 6.6 C

  Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

  

Apps in ChromeOS are sandboxed regardless. Over at Linux we're trying to achieve 'bandaid-solutions' using tools like bubblewrap and (albeit to a lesser degree) firejail. Note that the term 'bandaid-solutions' was not meant derogatory, I think both bubblewrap and firejail are amazing utilities. However, their best efforts can only do so much in an environment in which privileged access is the norm, rather than the exception. So to be more elaborate, apps on Linux (by default) can basically do whatever they want. By contrast, ChromeOS has been built from the ground up (as previously mentioned) to sandbox apps regardless.

• firejail

  139 5,442 9.7 C

  Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

Apps in ChromeOS are sandboxed regardless. Over at Linux we're trying to achieve 'bandaid-solutions' using tools like bubblewrap and (albeit to a lesser degree) firejail. Note that the term 'bandaid-solutions' was not meant derogatory, I think both bubblewrap and firejail are amazing utilities. However, their best efforts can only do so much in an environment in which privileged access is the norm, rather than the exception. So to be more elaborate, apps on Linux (by default) can basically do whatever they want. By contrast, ChromeOS has been built from the ground up (as previously mentioned) to sandbox apps regardless.

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