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AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop
- sgt 4mo agohttps://aluminium-os.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-aluminiumOS.png https://aluminium-os.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-... Oh my.
- sans_souse 4mo agoI was stoked for a second. But I read the open. Did anyone really want this?
- ThePowerOfFuet 4mo agoPerhaps if it can be de-googled. GrapheneOS for desktop — with a few more knobs exposed — would probably be second only to Qubes from a security standpoint. Yes, I use a lot of emdashes.
- cpcallen 4mo ago> Yes, I use a lot of emdashes. If only you used them properly—like this.
- sans_souse 4mo agoor⸻that.
- ulfw 4mo agoThis is just 'dexified' Android. How is this a 'new OS'? Are we living in minimal effort, maximum Marketing BS world now?
- sgt 4mo agoOne side effect of the AI revolution, yes.
- gehsty 4mo agoOpportunistic url and vibe coded copy? The site looks quite good though, just reads super AI generated!
- microflash 4mo ago> Gemini AI baked into every layer of the operating system. This itself is a dealbreaker (and probably a recipe for some litigations in future).
- JustinGoldberg9 4mo agoAlways astonished at the pro privacy and anti-bitcoin stances here in general on TheftCombinator.
- TheDong 4mo ago> Not officially affiliated with Google. This thing stinks so hard of AI that it's impossible to trust any of the specific details. IMO this is slop, it's not worth reading, once we have something written by an actual human with actual information about the subject, I'll read that.
- Jallal 4mo agoThis. They use ambiguous wording throughout their site.
- 28304283409234 4mo ago> Aluminium OS is Google's ground-up Android desktop operating system So... built on Android built on Linux built on GNU inspired by UNIX?
- JustinGoldberg9 4mo agoStallman want to call it gnu/android/Linux
- randfur 4mo agoThis is a parody website that was created long before the recent Googlebook announcement back when it was known by the code name Aluminium.
- mcphage 4mo agoI don't get what you mean by "parody". I agree it's not real, but I don't read any of it as a joke, just... it's fake.
- felixsebastian 4mo agolol thank god, i was getting palpitations
- ottobonn 4mo agoThe marketing copy here is low quality. It spends a lot of words explaining what this isn't instead of what it is. It also just sounds like AI in an off-putting way. What does it mean to have an operating system with "Gemini at every layer"? Based on this page I fear that the entire OS will have a similar level of quality and consideration. This paragraph in particular shows a confusing lack of understanding: "The name itself is deliberate. ChromeOS came from Chromium — a metallic element ending in "-ium." Aluminium follows the same pattern, but the British spelling highlights the prefix Al, standing for Android-Linux: an honest acknowledgment of what this platform is built on." The British spelling does not in fact highlight the fact that the word starts with "Al" any more than the American spelling would. By this point in the page I got angry and stopped reading, because it's a waste of my time. Edit: if this is a parody, it makes way more sense. I fell for it!
- happymellon 4mo ago> It spends a lot of words explaining what this isn't instead of what it is. There us certainly more about how it can't run Adobe than what Gemini could do to improve your desktop workflows. Terrible site.
- sgt 4mo agoSomeone mentioned this is maybe a parody site. Might be true. Also says at the bottom: "Not officially affiliated with Google."
- nikhilpareek13 4mo ago[flagged]