Launching 2026 Android. Reimagined for the Desktop. Aluminium OS is Google's ground-up Android desktop operating system — not a stretched phone interface, not a browser with apps bolted in. A real desktop OS, with Gemini AI at its core, launching across HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS and more in 2026. --> The Foundation Android grows up. Properly this time. Aluminium OS — internally codenamed ALOS — is Google's entirely new Android-based operating system built specifically for laptops and desktop computers. This is not ChromeOS with a Play Store tab. It is not an Android phone app scaling itself to a 15-inch display. Aluminium OS is built from the ground up on Android 17, with a completely custom window manager, a real taskbar, virtual desktops, and Gemini AI baked into every layer of the operating system. For over a decade, Google ran two separate systems in parallel — ChromeOS for laptops, Android for phones — and it showed.…