ChromeOS is not a real OS. It's an embedded appliance/cloud OS as a gateway to the web and Google services. Anyone can make a machine boot fast if it has nothing to load.
Just because it's not bloated doesn't make it any less of an OS then any other minimal Linux installation, it is itself built on the Linux kernel - it is just highly optimised for a very select set of software and hardware requirements.
It's gentoo based. Just because its DE is basically just chrome doesn't make it any less of an OS. Hell, you can even run another OS in a chroot on it.
You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select services that minimize your boot time.
feld|8 years ago
mistat|8 years ago
popman|8 years ago
You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select services that minimize your boot time.