Modern operating systems failed to provide proper sandboxing for apps. May be because of their legacy or may be because it was never their focus. Imagine opening Apple iOS to all apps without restrictions. Vulnerabilities will be infinite. Android formally allows side-loading but do you really dare to install untrusted apk? I do not. I'd be super cautious about that. I don't trust Android security model. But I'm not super cautions to visit some site. I trust browser security model. And don't even talk about Linux or Windows or macOS, sandbox is just not used by majority of apps and users are not even aware about it. macOS probably the most advanced in that regard, but the first thing I do is install macports which have access to /usr/local, where's your sandbox now?
So even without portability, chromium OS is superior when it comes to sandboxing. Users are much safer using web apps rather than native apps.
And portability is, of course, extremely important aspect as well.
Chromium OS is a good future. We just need bare metal performance.
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I find the way we are slowly converging on Chromium-Powered-Browser as the standard operating system to be both funny and frustrating.
I'm really dissatisfied with Electron apps in general and using an an operating system designed to run on top of other operating systems feels wrong.
But, I do really like it when things portably just work.
Modern operating systems failed to provide proper sandboxing for apps. May be because of their legacy or may be because it was never their focus. Imagine opening Apple iOS to all apps without restrictions. Vulnerabilities will be infinite. Android formally allows side-loading but do you really dare to install untrusted apk? I do not. I'd be super cautious about that. I don't trust Android security model. But I'm not super cautions to visit some site. I trust browser security model. And don't even talk about Linux or Windows or macOS, sandbox is just not used by majority of apps and users are not even aware about it. macOS probably the most advanced in that regard, but the first thing I do is install macports which have access to /usr/local, where's your sandbox now?
So even without portability, chromium OS is superior when it comes to sandboxing. Users are much safer using web apps rather than native apps.
And portability is, of course, extremely important aspect as well.
Chromium OS is a good future. We just need bare metal performance.