TFA mentions GalliumOS for repurposing end-of-life Chromebooks, but it should be noted that GalliumOS hasn’t been receiving updates for at least a year, possibl

TFA mentions GalliumOS for repurposing end-of-life Chromebooks, but it should be noted that GalliumOS hasn’t been receiving updates for at least a year, possibly more like two. On the other hand, if you have an x86 Chromebook and you can switch it to “dev mode,” you can usually just press ctrl+L on the dev mode warning screen and be dropped into a coreboot-flavored seabios or tianocore UEFI. You might need an additional package/driver or two for the custom Cros_EC embedded controller and other weird hardware, but you can definitely boot ordinary Linux or even Windows on (at least some) unmodified Chromebooks! Don’t expect a pleasant Windows 11 experience on essentially a passively cooled tablet, though :)