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Today’s fuckery:

A few years back we bought my son a Chromebook for his schoolwork. At the time it seemed like a good choice because the price was right and the limited specs meant that it would pretty useless for much else. (Focus on your schoolwork, kid!)

The Chromebook ended up getting slightly bent in my son’s backpack, which screwed up the touchpad. Alas, old Chromey ended up forgotten in the ‘pile of old crap I refuse to get rid of’, until one day I decided to do some searching into repairing the touchpad, which I was able to accomplish by ‘shimming’ out to warped case a little bit.

Then Google decided to end support for Chromebooks.

Well, today I dusted the old girl off and began with the question: can one install Linux on this thing?

Turns out, the answer is ‘probably’.

Hell yeah, let’s dig in!

#RightToRepair #HardwareHacking #JailBreaking #Chromebook

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@crispius
I have attempted that procedure. I was unsuccessful, but I did find out one thing that may or may not be useful. Some of the Chromebooks are very easy to install Linux, and the rest of them are very difficult.
I couldn't do it, so I took it to a computer lady, and she did it, but it only lasted until I had to re-boot.
I would say, give it a shot, but if it seems like it's not working relatively easily, it might not work at all.
Maybe you can use it as a trade-in for a discount on a used laptop. That's what I ended up doing.
Apr 6 at 6:45pmWeb