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Zerush @lemmy.ml

7d ago

Huawei launches HarmonyOS for PCs to rival Windows and macOS in the desktop market

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Just a moment...

https://consumer.huawei.com/ae-en/harmonyos/

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Any similarity to Apple is purely coincidental.
Or thanks, we already have the best alternatives to macOS and Windows that money cannot buy: https://distrowatch.com/
- The difference is, that HarmonyOS is free to use, not so Windows or MacOS., when we excepted WindowsX, something like an de-microsofted Windows, which also is free to use. Not all people can or want to use Linux, eg.for accessbility, where Linux is far way behind Windows or MacOS. Well, the question is if a Chinese OS is more private than a US OS, this isn't so clear currently, but alternatives and competition is always good for the user.
  
  What is that windowsX? A real windows with no licence and no licence check?
- Looks like it's still android, which is still Linux.
  
  Android's kernel is based on Linux yes but its heavily modified and incompatible. Simplest Linux app cant run on Android and vise versa.
  Android is not Linux
  
  i think of it as another distro, but with a really good eco system like redhat or ubuntu.
- Asia is really into macOS GUI in general.
  
  Well, windows UI is historically terrible, while apple at least used to pay attention to the UI/UX. I wouldn't blame people preferring a window manager which doesn't randomly steal focus.

I do hope they open source the whole thing at some point.
- Why even bother?
  They should just be contributing to a free software distribution if we want it to benefit us.
  
  I mean the core of HarmonyOS is open source already https://www.openharmony.cn/
  It's understandable why they want to have control over the full hardware and software stack. You get a lot of benefits from optimizing the software specifically for the hardware you have. This also allows them to make the software leaner avoiding bloat and legacy cruft.

If ppl bought chrome Os, they can use Harmony Os

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