I always wondered why I saw many dozens of references to the Wayland project (from writers who think it might be a good idea to replace X) and no references, until today, to the idea of turning ChromeOS into something more like a regular Linux-based desktop&#x2F;laptop OS.<p>(ChromeOS does not rely on X but rather has its own windowing system developed by Google.)<p>Writers hopeful about Wayland love to talk about how Gnome or KDE already supports of will soon support Wayland, despite the fact that for a desktop&#x2F;laptop OS, support from one of the major browsers is much more important than support from Gnome or KDE. (Yes, I know that Gnome <i>includes</i> a web browser: that browser will not work however with all or even most of the sites a typical user needs to visit.) And it is far from certain whether any of the major browsers will ever run on Wayland (without XWayland or some other large X-compatibility library that relies on X) whereas of course one of the major open-source browsers already runs reliably on the windowing system and low-level graphical libraries in ChromeOS.