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

So after some reading I found a site offering a pretty straightforward tutorial on how to jailbreak and install other OSs on Chromebook. Apparently people are installing Linux, Windows and even MacOS on these things!

https://docs.mrchromebox.tech

#RightToRepair #HardwareHacking #JailBreaking #Chromebook

MrChromebox.tech

MrChromebox.tech website

@crispius Have a look at Endless OS, it’s student oriented with a focus a game programming and media production.
Debian based, but uses flatpack to bring in newer applications

When some of the schools chromebooks support expires …

https://support.endlessos.org/en/installation/basic-vs-full
Endless OS Basic & Full editions

What is the difference between the Basic version and the Full version?

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@crispius Can also do endless on the Pi and other ARM single board computers. https://support.endlessos.org/en/installation
Installation

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