I would be fine with Google dropping support, but they should at least let us run a mainline Linux kernel or something on them so that if people want to keep pr

I would be fine with Google dropping support, but they should at least let us run a mainline Linux kernel or something on them so that if people want to keep providing support after Google drops them we can. That behavior is the only reason that 15+ year old machines can still run current Linux. There's at least someone out there interested in keeping them working.