Googlebook, Designed for Gemini Intelligence (blog.google)

It runs android!

Launch page at https://googlebook.google/

- Fall 2026 planned release

- Runs new OS looking like a mix of ChromeOS/Android

- Vendors: Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo

Any idea what the relation is between this (Aluminum OS?) and Android Desktop Mode?

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545

If this works out then 2027 might actually be the year of desktop Linux... but like in the saddest way possible.