RFC: Ungoogle Chromium OS

[TheOneWithTheBraid]

I'm pretty unsure whether this repo is the right place to post at...

I am curious about the idea of ungoogled Chromium OS.

Recently, the Chromium Project announced to widely support Chromium OS as a regular Linux distro users may run on any x86 machine. Unfortunately, the aim of this project is not to provide an ungoogled Chromium OS, but more likely to push the Google related projects on many x86 systems too.

In regard of this step, I was wondering whether it would be possible to provide generic ungoogled Chromium OS builds too.

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Why should anyone use ungoogled Chromium OS?

At the moment, Chromium OS is one of the few Linux distros / desktop environments properly supporting touch screens, Stylus input and convertible devices.
Moreover, Chromium OS is pretty well eligible for Android development as it natively runs Android applications.

Unfortunately, aside of Google's Chrome OS, there are currently only two other notable Chromium OS distros; Fyde OS and CloudReady. Both are addicted to cloud services and shipped with proprietary software.

What's simply missing, is a libre, ungoogled Chromiums OS build somewhere.

[wchen342]

In theory it is doable, but building Chromium OS may have more hurdles like secure boot, etc. than a browser. The more serious problem (for this project) is, however, a shortage in developers, so I am not sure who can devote to this task.

[xplshn]

There is already, a fork which replaces Chromium, with another browser, ThoriumOS