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Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] c0ber@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and yes, I know they are both based off Linux.

maybe pedantic, but macos is actually bsd based. chromeos being based off of actual linux(gentoo) is what has allowed them to slowly open it up to the point where you can actually install regular linux apps on it

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

slowly open it up to the point where you can actually install regular linux apps on it

The linux running Chrome OS is completely separated, by design, from the virtual machine that runs linux apps under Chrome OS.