Did they ever have that ability? I know they did a bunch of work for Android/Chrome OS. But both of those are Linux, have they tried to develop an OS from scratch before fuschia?
Perhaps more importantly, both of those are complete and have real users who found value in them.
Chrome OS absolutely dominates the education market. So less successful than Android, sure (but so is literally every other OS at this point), but still very successful.
It can be hardly seen in European countries, and I bet other continents are hardly different.
And the reasons why are pretty straightforward. Kids can't really mess them up, they are highly sharable (eg laptop carts), they are cheap (generally), and they have centralized management for schools that's otherwise typically limited to enterprise markets.
Before COVID, most schools were still about pen and paper in most European countries, computers are used at home.
> Before COVID, most schools were still about pen and paper in most European countries,
Gonna need a citation on that one. It'd be quite surprising for European schools to be so far behind
And from what I can find, they weren't. Eg way back in 2006 https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4242022/europe-ict-survey...
"Scandinavian nations like Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are able to provide computing equipment to almost every single student and teacher within their borders"
Using Pen and Paper isn't so far behind, it is the wisdom to avoid hype.
Everything else, including driver subsystem (Android docs even calls classic Linux drivers legacy), doesn't have anything to do with GNU/Linux.