Gentoo is under ChromeOS’s hood. These optimizations are what enabled accessibly-priced laptops for kids off all economic stratum (even if the Google part is bad).
I always assumed it was just for ease of integrating custom kernels with the binary blobs needed to boot and run the cheap ARM SOCs, plus ease of hacking off and adding on bits as needed
Gentoo is under ChromeOS’s hood. These optimizations are what enabled accessibly-priced laptops for kids off all economic stratum (even if the Google part is bad).
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I always assumed it was just for ease of integrating custom kernels with the binary blobs needed to boot and run the cheap ARM SOCs, plus ease of hacking off and adding on bits as needed