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modeless on May 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU

Google cares about Chrome Linux support and pays people to work on it, for two reasons. One is Chrome OS, and the other is that most Google engineers use Linux desktops for work.

brulard on May 26, 2025 [–]

Do they? I thought they would mostly be on MacBooks.

modeless on May 26, 2025 | [–]

Most Google engineers have both. Or at least they did when I was there. And Chrome developers in particular do their development primarily on Linux.

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