Got a Chromebook? Worried about the change?
Got a Chromebook? Worried about the change?
You can boot into developer mode, install chromebrew https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew
You can install Firefox now!!
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https://mrchromebox.tech/ you can also install linux with coreboot. Works great on mine
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Works great on my x86 ones, Im on arm currently ( it's quicker than the others)
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What change? ChromeOS is getting split into , so wiping it and getting pure Linux should be much easier in the future.
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MY CB is eol, so chromebrew is my best alternative. Chrome is sending unique identifiers to websites soon, I don't need to run firefox because Im stuck on chrome 77, just posting for posterity
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This isn't true. The bootloader and boot process will be the same. This link is about the bundled Chrome (which is also what houses the entire UI/UX for the OS) becoming deprecated as the main browser for the standard Linux flavor one running through the wayland bridge of Crostini.
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Can't you put a normal linux on it?
If I can remember correctly, the bootloader is really funky. It can probably be done (considering that ChromeOS is a flavour of Linux).
It can absolutely be done, I've been running uefi modified Chromebooks for a while, my 12th gen intel Chromebook even runs windows now.
https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices Nearly every Intel Chromebook is supported and once flashed they boot like traditional computers.
My current one? No, it's a cb5-311 with 16gb of storage, I could run an older arch, but only leaves 3-4gb after the OS install since no methods replace chromeos on this model.