You can boot into developer mode, install chromebrew https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew
You can install Firefox now!!
Can’t you put a normal linux on it?
If I can remember correctly, the bootloader is really funky. It can probably be done (considering that ChromeOS is a flavour of Linux).
It can absolutely be done, I’ve been running uefi modified Chromebooks for a while, my 12th gen intel Chromebook even runs windows now.
https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices Nearly every Intel Chromebook is supported and once flashed they boot like traditional computers.
Neat.
Was about to comment this! My Chromebook still runs chrome os but once support runs out it’ll be getting straight Linux
What keeps you on chromeos?
Honestly laziness. Setting up a Linux vm works fine for light Linux apps, and ssh/rdp does everything that needs more processing power.
Given the Google web-drm thing I probably need to start looking at wiping it and putting Linux or FreeBSD or SOMETHING else but just haven’t felt like wiping a working system yet and reinstalling everything.
My current one? No, it’s a cb5-311 with 16gb of storage, I could run an older arch, but only leaves 3-4gb after the OS install since no methods replace chromeos on this model.
What change? ChromeOS is getting split into , so wiping it and getting pure Linux should be much easier in the future.
This isn’t true. The bootloader and boot process will be the same. This link is about the bundled Chrome (which is also what houses the entire UI/UX for the OS) becoming deprecated as the main browser for the standard Linux flavor one running through the wayland bridge of Crostini.
MY CB is eol, so chromebrew is my best alternative. Chrome is sending unique identifiers to websites soon, I don’t need to run firefox because Im stuck on chrome 77, just posting for posterity
https://mrchromebox.tech/ you can also install linux with coreboot. Works great on mine
