Gregory's Server@mcc chromebooks are basically designed to be e-waste huh?
The things break super easily so school ITs basically need a mountain of spare parts, the OS stops getting updates after 6 years, and the hardware is bare-minimum intel atom crap
it is quite awful how google managed to grift the education market into buying the ecosystem, but then again cheap webapp-only laptops are quite enticing from an admin perspective 🤔
(and to chromeOS' credit it does run extremely well on shit CPUs, see cloudready/chromeOS flex)
It is pretty easy to install linux on 'em though from what I recall:tux:
@Difegue @mcc it's SUPER easy, just turn on "developer mode" from the menu and reboot, it'll boot from usb or SD card like any laptop after that, you can install a new OS or just run from the card.
They're pretty much guaranteed to run linux well too since the default software is literally linux booting into chrome fullscreen....
While I don't like google this whole thing sounds like someone in Oakland just wants an excuse to buy new laptops (software "expired"???wut..it's a browser..)