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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know but it might be inextricably linked to Googles content servers or reliant on services in such a way that it can't simply be stripped of the telemetry in the way VSCodium is for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

ChromeOS uses a custom display server for the moment, but Chrome + is pretty similar. 🤷🏽‍♂️

ChromeOS is moving to Wayland as their display server, to make it even more of a standard Linux install.