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How does Chrome OS resemble old Windows?

here's chrome os: http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/chrome-os-a...

here's windows 7: http://www.techfuels.com/attachments/windows-7-2000-nt/28356...

Do you mean to say Chrome OS looks like Windows because the toolbar is on the button like Windows and not on the top like *nix?

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Why do you think nix has a toolbar on top? There's no "nix interface". There are thousands of them. And most of the interfaces allow you to change the location of the panels. I laughed out lout at what you said.

Either way, IMHO those two desktops look similar.

The most popular *nix UI is the one you get with OS X and it's toolbar is at the top. So is the standard toolbar on Ubuntu.

And there are not thousands of linux interfaces. Having the ability to customize does not mean there's a new interface every time you adjust something. Leave the hyperbole on 4chan.

Can we just not call it nix? I think that is what is confusing. Maybe its just the most popular desktop linux format (at least currently) or something else. It is kind of weird to talk about a standard nix interface that isn't a terminal (at least it seems that way to me). Every linux box I use always has different desktop/X-environment from the next. There may not be thousands of X11 desktops, but there are quite a few (cde, enlightenment, gnome, kde, xfce, just off the top of my hdead) that all have their differences. I would agree more with the other guy, but acknowledge its pedantic details.

I mean if you want to say that they don't resemble one another, that's fine, but I think that might be a bit of denial.

The first thing I thought of when I looked at the ChromeOS screenshot was it was a cross between Windows and the iPad. The toolbar/taskbar at the bottom is very Windows-y in its appearance, and the grid of icons looks like the iPad launcher (also the Honeycomb launcher too).

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