You Can Now Install ChromeOS On ANY Computer
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Published 2022-08-10
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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Creating the Installation Media
2:30 - ChromeOS Flex Installation Process
4:10 - A Very Important Thing
5:45 - First Time Setup
6:39 - Exploring ChromeOS
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All Comments (21)
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I'm running Flex on an old Lenovo laptop (with decent specs); gives me limited things I can do, but I only takes this when I'm out and about and do not want to take my tablet, one thing I did notice was the increase in the battery usage length to 7 hours and yes I tested that 5 times, over all a decent o.s. that can get small things done, I like it.
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You might not like the accusatory nature of this statement but this was ORIGINALLY a distribution of ChromiumOS called Cloudready. By purchasing Neverware, Google has dodged making a version of ChromeOS that is based on THE ChromeOS they use on their Chromebooks. They know how to keep their cards close.
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I'm running actual ChromeOS (rammus) via brunch framework on a Thinkpad T550 and I am very happy with it. I can run Android apps and I even rooted the Android container. ChromeOS absolutely flies on this machine (16gb ram, i7). I dual boot it with Windows 11. I get better battery life running on the ChromeOS side, so it is my daily driver. I only boot into Windows to run software unique to Windows.
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One note about the media creator: The reason it asks for model numbers is so you can recover other chomebooks, not just flex. All of those other options will install the real chrome OS.
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My only guess as to why the Google Play store (and others) might not work is that they might be expecting an ARM based ChromeOS, and not x86.
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This could have a lot of uses that people aren't really thinking of. It could be great for schools with older, out of support Chromebooks which no longer officially received ChromeOS updates. I guess this could be useful for developers as well for testing.
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I like this but I think doing a fresh install of a Linux distribution, installing Linux over the existing operating system is a better idea. I've installed Linux on old laptops and PCs many times, always 100% success.
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Just install a linux distro at that point, you will be actually getting a full desktop os, or just stick to whatever old windows os came preinstalled with that laptop unless you wanna use the internet. My advice is to try some lightweight linux distro.
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Just use Linux for giving old stuff new life, it is less bloated. Linux is also good for new computers, tbh everyone should use Linux, it's great
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I don't know about you but in my opinion I am like "Who wants to install Chrome OS on their computer" because I don't like Chrome OS but anyways, nice video. Keep it up!
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If chromeos flex added play store support i would definitely install it
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I personally don't have a reason to install ChromeOS on anything right now, but I can see where it might help those who are not technical and need limited choices like doing everything through a browser. Windows just has too many settings and things that can get a user into trouble. The same applies to Linux. For a lot of seniors this is more than enough.
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Nice video but for anyone interested installing this on an old desktop or laptop please make sure that the devices motherboard supports UEFI/Secure Boot otherwise, even if it says you installed Flex OS successfully, you won't ever be able to boot onto the OS.
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I put Flex on an old thinkpad. It works great. Theo is right about it not having a lot of app options. For basic everyday use and browsing it is handy.
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Pretty sure ChromeOS is Linux based Which begs the question why use ChromeOS? When you could use an actually functional more lightweight OS that is opensource and doesnt require a google account and also allows any app to be installed much easier
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I find this bizzare, but I never used my school chromebook until my school let me keep it when graduating, where I forced it to run Gnu+linux rather than Google+linux and now I'm really happy with it.
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Very few reasons to get Flex. The installation drive issue is critical and so obvious that it's hard to believe that it wasn't done on purpose, but I do not know why they would do that
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I am ruuning chrome os flex on a 2007 macbook it works great and gave this old laptop new life .I only have 2 gig of ram but it is still fast,
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Just use an actual GNU/Linux distro. I use Manjaro on my 10 year old Dell laptop and it transformed it as if it was brand new. Screw Windows. I'll have to check out Chrome OS just for the shits and giggles.
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Tip: you can install chrome os on any drive you want you just have to tinker a little in the terminal You can hit ctrl+alt+f2 Enter “chronos” for the username Type in “sudo fdisk -l” and find the exact name of the drive you want to install on Then you can type in “sudo chromeos-install --dst /dev/DRIVENAME --target-bios efi” and boom Edit: never mind, the shortcut was disabled in the stable release along with shell access in general
