Recommended Client Platforms: What about fydeOS?

📱 Desktop & mobile clients
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Of course there are linux desktops …
but I woud prefer ChromeOS (flex) for non IT affine users.

FydeOS, however, based on Chromium,

What is FydeOS?

differs positively from ChromeOS, as it

  • is unconnected to Google and
  • sports an android API - (you CAN install Google, if You want so)

In my eyes this is a promising client platform, for a cloud free from big data.

Of course, we may have to retain some windows clients due to software, that runs only there and has no cloud variant. But for the rest … see above

Your Recommendation?

  • Linux
  • ChromeOS
  • FydeOS
  • Other
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Thanks for posting! Never heard of FydeOS but sounds very interesting! :slight_smile:

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I wouldn’t hold my breath that there will be an actual desktop client for ChromeOS, or FrydeOS, unless of course it would be possible to install the Linux client (in which case no extra release would be necessary), or if it would be relatively easy to port the Linux desktop client, but that would likely have to be done by the community, I could be wrong though.

PC devices with FydeOS installed can perfectly support the latest web application standards and are compatible with Android applications and Linux environments, providing a Google Chromebook-like experience.

Maybe you could use the Android app.

As browser platform and web technology continue to mature, we are convinced that most of the work you do today over the web will be possible in the future through a simple browser

If none of the above works/is going to happen, I’d say your only option for using the desktop client is to use an OS with an actual desktop while web technology continues to mature to a point where you don’t need a desktop client anymore :wink:

EDIT:
My answer obviously referred to the client apps because you posted in that category. If you don’t need them, i.e. if you’re always online and mainly work in the browser anyway, I don’t see anything wrong with using ChromeOS or a derivative of it :slight_smile:

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I’m using the linux appimage under ChromeOS-flex.

About using the android client I would report here.