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I really need to update my chromebook to linux one of these days.
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?
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.
Don't they lock down the bootloader on some Chromebooks?
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.