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That's sad news. ChromeOS is much faster and more efficient than Android. Turning off the Android subsystem in low-end Chromebooks is a huge performance boost, even when no Android apps are open.

>>Mirast+(OP)
To be fair, that’s likely because the Android subsystem is a virtual machine - not running multiple sets of system services / CPU emulation on a computer will make it faster pretty much universally.

>>odo124+y1
Yup, the android vm is too much for a chrome pc unless it’s a high end device.

I can’t imagine android going faster than chrome at a native level either.

>>odo124+y1
It's not just the virtualization, ChromeOS has had a lot of work put into performance. The low-end ARM Chromebooks use the same hardware as budget Android devices, and they're noticeably faster. My Android phone uses more RAM doing nothing from a fresh boot than those Chromebooks even have.

>>Mirast+(OP)
Breaks my heart (worked on Android from 2016-2023, ChromeOS was a revelation. Alas, Efficiency™. (as in salaries, not the things we build))

>>Mirast+ni
That’s a good point actually. Windowed app performance on Android apps is especially bad since they’re not designed for it (most of my experience is on Android-x86, but window resizing performance is not great)