If you haven't heard, Google's making a new as of yet unannounced OS. Keep in mind, this is not Android or a derivative of Android or even a fork of the Linux kernel. This is a completely written from scratch OS that Google is using to do... Something.
But what? Windows already does most everything people want it to. Android already satisfies the mobile market nicely. Linux on the whole does everything else Windows can't or won't do which, let's be honest, isn't much. Furthermore, Google will have to worry about compatibility. There's a Windows version for literally any computer made as long as it's made around 1992 or beyond. And while they don't need to worry about supporting ancient machines at all, that's still an absolute TON of computers and accessories to support. Linux can do it simply because they had a big head start and a bunch of people behind them. Microsoft has had and right now has a ton of resources to do it (plus a bunch of time as well).
Will it be faster? Windows 10 (besides RAM usage) is, believe it or not, already pretty light on resource usage, considering how much hardware and features it supports now. And again, for everything else, there's Linux which can run even lighter than Windows at the expense of some functionality that you can choose.
Will it be more compatible with stuff? It'd take a serious FEAT of engineering to surpass Linux and Window's years of work that has gone into their drivers and code. And even then, I don't think that'll be enough to make people switch.
Will it make things easier? Windows and Linux have gotten to the point where any idiot can do what they want quickly and painlessly. Well, with Linux it depends on the distro, but you get what I mean. All I have to do to play my music is open the Start menu, open my folder, go to the Music folder, and boom. I'm there. Plus, Windows allows me to easily sort my files by whatever the hell I want. And it has a quick and dirty search function. Linux also has all this functionality plus an insanely powerful CLI. If I wanna play a game, I click on the Steam icon in the task bar, and I choose what I want on the recent games list. Or I just click Library for a full list. If I wanna browse the internet, I hit the Start button and click on Chrome.
Will it be more secure? Linux in it's vanilla form is pretty damn secure, and if you get some of the more hardened distros, it's nigh impenetrable. And Windows 10 actually isn't far off from Linux at all now. AND both get constant security updates. Now, are they both completely untouchable? No. Not at all, but it's as secure as you're gonna get. And in any case, most users don't need or will ever need that amount of security at all.
Will it be cheaper? Linux is free and will always be. Windows is preloaded onto almost every major computer you can buy these days so you technically don't need to pay for it.
All in all, I can see pretty much no advantage Fuschia could possibly bring to the table.
But what? Windows already does most everything people want it to. Android already satisfies the mobile market nicely. Linux on the whole does everything else Windows can't or won't do which, let's be honest, isn't much. Furthermore, Google will have to worry about compatibility. There's a Windows version for literally any computer made as long as it's made around 1992 or beyond. And while they don't need to worry about supporting ancient machines at all, that's still an absolute TON of computers and accessories to support. Linux can do it simply because they had a big head start and a bunch of people behind them. Microsoft has had and right now has a ton of resources to do it (plus a bunch of time as well).
Will it be faster? Windows 10 (besides RAM usage) is, believe it or not, already pretty light on resource usage, considering how much hardware and features it supports now. And again, for everything else, there's Linux which can run even lighter than Windows at the expense of some functionality that you can choose.
Will it be more compatible with stuff? It'd take a serious FEAT of engineering to surpass Linux and Window's years of work that has gone into their drivers and code. And even then, I don't think that'll be enough to make people switch.
Will it make things easier? Windows and Linux have gotten to the point where any idiot can do what they want quickly and painlessly. Well, with Linux it depends on the distro, but you get what I mean. All I have to do to play my music is open the Start menu, open my folder, go to the Music folder, and boom. I'm there. Plus, Windows allows me to easily sort my files by whatever the hell I want. And it has a quick and dirty search function. Linux also has all this functionality plus an insanely powerful CLI. If I wanna play a game, I click on the Steam icon in the task bar, and I choose what I want on the recent games list. Or I just click Library for a full list. If I wanna browse the internet, I hit the Start button and click on Chrome.
Will it be more secure? Linux in it's vanilla form is pretty damn secure, and if you get some of the more hardened distros, it's nigh impenetrable. And Windows 10 actually isn't far off from Linux at all now. AND both get constant security updates. Now, are they both completely untouchable? No. Not at all, but it's as secure as you're gonna get. And in any case, most users don't need or will ever need that amount of security at all.
Will it be cheaper? Linux is free and will always be. Windows is preloaded onto almost every major computer you can buy these days so you technically don't need to pay for it.
All in all, I can see pretty much no advantage Fuschia could possibly bring to the table.
