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I wonder what this means for Lacros (Chrome as a Wayland application compositing to Ash-Chrome). Would this just be using Surfaceflinger and the Android version of Chrome? Does this deprioritize regular Chrome for Linux?

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I think these are quite interesting questions. Chromium just spent a lot of effort to get stock Chromium working as a ChromeOS client, rather than it purely being available as part of ChromeOS itself. Is that ... pointless now in the face of a rebase on Android? Seems like it will end up being a win for a narrow window of devices?

(I was thinking about this, and maybe it's intentional. Make Chrome a first class citizen on formerly-ChromeOS. Make ChromeOS a generic base for AVF VMs. Maybe they even have cros working so well that they can do crostini inside an AVF VM?

So it would be Android, Chrome-on-ChromeOS in an AVF VM, Linux-on-ChromeOS in another AVF VM, Windows in a third AVF VM, etc.

I reckon Google will want to keep supporting Chrome on Linux, because winning developers over is important for them to win control of the web.

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