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Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video

19 points by theanonymousone ago | 20 comments

wappieslurkz |next [-]

Is it me or is Google's UI & graphic design becoming more and more childish (and boring at the same time) with every move they make? Not a fan. And: the Google Sans font family looks just so annoyingly "whimsical" and outdated to me.

geek_at |next |previous [-]

The fact that this os might teach Americans how to spell Aluminum correctly is kind of hilarious to me. Or are they going to mispronounce the OS too?

melesian |root |parent |next [-]

Your condescension and arrogance is amusing. The British discoverer of the metal, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it aluminum, which Americans still use.

jfrbfbreudh |root |parent |previous [-]

What is correctly?

saghm |root |parent |next [-]

I'm also confused by the parent comment because it appears that they spelled it in the American way, whereas the OS seems to use the British spelling. If they think the OS will teach people the correct way, evidently they don't spell it correctly.

dlcarrier |root |parent |next |previous [-]

The original spelling, which follows the same pseudo-Latin convention other chemical names use is: Alumium

All other spellings are from people adding one or more letters because they think it sounds better.

whynotmaybe |root |parent [-]

Pffft, nonsense, the only way is the French (as in language) way, just call it alu.

Why use many syllable when few do trick?

armchairhacker |next |previous [-]

The video: https://youtu.be/dXmFIfv_tIA

wappieslurkz |root |parent [-]

Thank you!

jauntywundrkind |next |previous [-]

It makes me incandescent to think an OS that disrespects it's users to the point where it won't let them see their filesystem is going to take over more form factors.

The security at all costs folks have deeply deeply deeply destroyed humankind's ability to see or observe what a computer is. This is a spiritual violation striking deep deep deep at the roots of Computer Liberations/Dream Machines. I deeply begrudge Android any success, for it fundamentally keeps users from understanding computing, from seeing what is. Traitor.

hulitu |root |parent |next [-]

> The security at all costs folks

What security ? Those programs will run any piece of bytes thrown at them.

cindyllm |root |parent |previous [-]

[dead]

RickS |next |previous [-]

Given the iOS-ification of macOS, the macOS-ification of Android is a good thing. If this shrinks well and encourages more netbook form factors or desktop norms on tablets, even better.

dlcarrier |root |parent [-]

All that really matters is whether or not it is locked down. If it isn't locked down, you can run whatever OS and UI modifications you want. If it is locked down, and you can only run approved software, then you are stuck with the features they want.

Zopieux |next |previous [-]

Looks like Android with extra animations and "use AI plz" prompts. What am I missing?

underlines |root |parent [-]

I don't get it either. i have a pixel 10 and it looks exactly like desktop mode, when connected to a docking station...

moomin |next |previous [-]

What’s the sell here? Chromebook 2.0?

__patchbit__ |root |parent [-]

MacBook Neo Aurora? Google does better UIX software and vampire taps userdata?

hulitu |root |parent [-]

> Google does better UIX software

maybe in a parallel universe.

dmitrygr |previous [-]

This looks a lot like this old thing: https://www.android-x86.org/screenshots.html