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Hopefully like some other chromebooks have been, they will be relatively hackable (e.g.: they will make it easy to install your own OS on too if you want). edi
by drvdevd 10y ago
Hopefully like some other chromebooks have been, they will be relatively hackable (e.g.: they will make it easy to install your own OS on too if you want).
edit: relatively easy -- I'm typing this on a Toshiba Chromebook on which I flashed a new BIOS to turn it into a regular PC laptop. Had to do the washer removal trick, etc. I think this was a good trade off on Google's part, between security and freedom, actually.
- wallacoloo 10y agoI have one of the earlier samsung Chromebooks with the exynos processor. I flashed Linux to it no sweat (I did not have to open it up or anything), but the graphics drivers were terrible and I was forever stuck on some 3.x kernel because not all the hardware drivers had been mainlined (or something). I couldn't even watch 480p non-fullscreen YouTube videos at 10 fps - that's how unusable the Linux drivers were. I was able to get Stepmania to run on it just for kicks, and it got < 2 fps. Literally worse than a 1st-gen Raspberry Pi. So... don't rely on it unless you know the drivers are in order or don't need any realtime graphics.