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Not touching chromebooks anymore now that I have to throw two of them away. Can’t install another OS. Can’t get security updates. Hardware is perfectly fine. Bu
by 28304283409234 3y ago
Not touching chromebooks anymore now that I have to throw two of them away. Can’t install another OS. Can’t get security updates. Hardware is perfectly fine. But unusable.
As someone that ditched his car to lessen his environmental impact, this hurts.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> Can’t install another OS What? AFAIK literally every chromebook model supports unlocking the bootloader and installing a replacement OS. Now in practice, you need some combination of (drivers)&&((OS that can handle the native firmware)||(replacement firmware)), but the situation appears decent; for x86 chromebooks, https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/ supports many (most?) devices, and postmarketos seems to cover both ARM and x86 (see https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Chrome_OS_devices https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Chrome_OS_devices for details - it looks like they can handle x86 without replacing the firmware).