Recently I’ve been experimenting with OpenFyde. This is a really cool FOSS Chromium fork which, unlike most other OSes, lets you run everything using a local account, and the user experience is not compromised at all if you choose to use a local account. It has the simplicity of Windows or Mac, with the “leave-me-the-f***-aloneness” of Linux.
It will run on just about anything, and they even have custom images for a wide variety of hardware.
It also has built-in support for Linux, Android, and even native Steam.
The one big hang-up is that, on a system where pretty much everything runs in the browser, I know nothing about the browser itself. It looks just like Chrome but the icon is changed. You can install different browsers via Android and Linux but the experience is not the same.
So, it’d be nice if Brave built on the open source work from these fine folks and built something similar but with a trustworthy browser as the bedrock of the system.
FydeOS/OpenFyde is monetized using built-in accounts, cloud services and annual OS update fees ($13/year after 90 day free trial). There could also be native support for BraveVPN. Brave could also sell hardware with BraveOS pre-installed.
Just throwing it out there…