When the OS first boots up, you are greeted with a familiar, Android-looking lock screen.
There are three buttons at the bottom right, which can be either clicked or tapped (both the trackpad and the touchscreen work), and Fuchsia's symbol at the top left.
The clock at the center is very reminiscent of Android, too.
If you try to log in, Google will run you through its usual procedure, but the last screen remains blank.
You can only enter as a guest, and when you do, you land on the home screen.
The home screen is radically different from that of any conventional OS on both mobile and desktop.
It looks a bit like a stretched out Google Now: There's some info right in the middle — like time and WiFi status — and then what seems to be a custom, personalised feed of Google-related stuff.
Swipe up to get into the Google Now-like feed.
Google may have replaced Google Now with the more powerful, artificial intelligence-based Assistant, but the feed's look resembles Google Now.
There are only three cards here, and they are just samples (as there is no user logged in), but they are the same kinds of cards that appear in your mobile Google feed — including the rounded look.
Yes, apps are still there!
The big difference between Fuchsia's home screen and those of more traditional operating systems is the complete lack of apps: There's no dock, no desktop icons, and no launcher.
What is there, however, is Google's famous search bar — and in this alpha version of Fuchsia it doesn't search the web, but rather the computer itself, including apps.
The apps don't actually work — they're just image placeholders showing mockups — but they go full screen and show a differently coloured strip at the top.
There's also multitasking.
Google first introduced multitasking with Android 6.0 Marshmallow back in 2016, so it would only make sense that a new OS — meant to run on widescreen computers — does the same.
You can snap two apps' windows together, and there's even a "tab mode" that merges two apps in a window as if they were two browser tabs you can easily switch between.
Closing an app will populate the home screen.
The small dot indicator at the bottom can be tapped or clicked to go back to the home screen, but doing so from an app will immediately send that app to the app switcher.
Unlike traditional desktop operating systems, the switcher is not a dock-like bar at the bottom, but a full-blown "river" of apps that are stacked at the top in reverse-chronological order.
You can scroll through the river.
Scroll up and all your previously used apps will appear. In this, Fuchsia resembles mobile operating systems a lot.
Tapping the Fuchsia symbol in the middle will open a settings-like panel.
The settings panel is pretty barebones in this build, with just a few sliders for volume and brightness and some toggles that look just like Android's.
You can also read a string that says "yard-polar-royal-crust" in the middle, but we're not exactly sure what that is.
The build fully supports phone mode.
As we said, Fuchsia is a multi-platform-designed OS.
It can dynamically switch between phone and tablet/laptop mode; some apps and mockups support phone mode, some don't, but generally speaking the OS seems to be built to be truly versatile.
