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You know ChromeOS is Linux, right? It's super easy to put a different distro on. You're totally up for it, a few hours max and you're good to go.
How do you do this? When I was putting Linux on Chromebook you had to do firmware mods that entailed taking the laptop apart to get it to work properly.
Yeah, some have a screw that turns off the firmware lock.
Needs a special key for the screw does it?
Don't they lock down the bootloader on some Chromebooks?
Really? I have a somewhat (six years) old Acer chromebook, and I had to flash a custom bios on it to install Linux. It wasn't terribly hard, and the guides on the internet were really good. It still took a couple of hours, but it wasn't as easy as installing Linux on a Windows machine... That may have changed since then (two years ago) but it was a learning experience and I personally enjoyed tinkering and getting it all installed. I now have a Chromebook running EndeavourOS.
Ive tried to update it several times in the past using the linux installer that comes built in, yet each time it has failed. I need to open it up and then find some files for it.