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[–] deprecateddino@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Honest question, why does anyone need this? You are presumably already on an OS in order to use this.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

2 main reasons.

  1. Using cloud environments is a pretty cheap and easy way to do data prevention loss, which is what corpos call it when they implement measures to prevent data from getting leaked. If you store all the data in this and gate this behind 2fa, then getting the main device hacked leaks no data provided the "cloud os" is logged out.

  2. Chromebook users. Docs suck, onlyoffice web sucks less.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Similar: anuraos, https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS

Anuraos is special because it uses a js linux emulator to execute linux apps. Very, very slowly. But it's there and there is even gui support.