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Chrome OS should be available as an Android applications. Let me use either AR glasses or a next dock with my phone. Looks like Google might do this since they just enable display out on the Pixel 8.

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Weirdly, that once existed for Windows: https://web.archive.org/web/20150323075241/https://www.howto... was basically Chrome OS as a Windows 8 app, but you'd launch it and it went fullscreen and gave you basically a Chrome OS interface. It was weird but I seem to recall it working okay.

You can already do this with Samsung Dex. I've been on S23 and now S24, Dex is mature and works great. Don't have a laptop anymore. Simply boot up code_server in termux and use a web browser.

It will likely be at least a year before Google manages to get a good version out the door. You can preview the desktop mode with floating windows on beta, but it's very buggy. May not even come to Pixel 8 officially, only for Pixel 9.

Google is also currently experimenting with booting ChromeOS inside a VM on Android.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/V...

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