yogi_pogi@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThis laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browserlemmy.worldimagemessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1549arrow-down112
arrow-up1537arrow-down1imageThis laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browserlemmy.worldyogi_pogi@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squarefunkajunk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·8 months agoThis device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol’ Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS. There’s also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
minus-squarethanevim@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoRunning xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
minus-squareLemmy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI’m pretty sure two gru_bob and gru_kevin have Libreboot support. I forget the name of the exact laptops, it should be in their documentation
This device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech
Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol’ Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS.
There’s also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
Running xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
I’m pretty sure two gru_bob and gru_kevin have Libreboot support. I forget the name of the exact laptops, it should be in their documentation