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Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser
Nomad@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Install Linux and have updates for the Rest oft your life. And more performance.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
davidgro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a Chromebook. That’s just the real answer to OP’s issue regardless of where they ask about it.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
Right. If it’s not getting updates, then it’s only a matter of time before it has a critical security vulnerability. If not Linux, then what? Will GNU Hurd run on it?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I don’t usually like all the Linux posts on Lemmy, but this is 100% the correct answer here. The computer will likely run a lot better if you do everything right!
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It already has Linux, that’s the issue.
NoneYa@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I have a Chromebook and it’s ridiculous how difficult they made it to install another OS.
I eventually did, but I needed to get something to flash a third party boatloader and at first I was told my laptop was not supported.
But getting an actual Linux distro has been so much better than ChomeOS.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Back when I had a Chromebook I actually had to open it up and remove a screw to be able to do it.
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The droid restraining bolt?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah. Write protect screw.
kspatlas@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The new chromebooks need special cables to unlock, either you have the skills and supplies to build a cable and adapter board or you buy a cable from a random company that is rarely in stock
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow that’s even worse.
taiyang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t think it too hard but it ended up being kind of fruitless, those things have almost no harddeive and I mostly did it to fuck around with Linux. Chromebooks, at least that one, had something like 16gbs and equally weak CPU to match (granted it might have changed since then but woof.)
invertedspear@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The whole point of a chrome book is to push you to use Google’s online services. I think you are still better off if you can do that with Linux running the machine.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Same, I did this back in college because my Windows laptop shit out and I couldn’t afford another proper computer. I ended up duct taping an external drive to the back.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
thankfully, once you get a proper UEFI bios on it, it’s free, forever.
But yeah, i agree, total bullshit how much work they put into not using UEFI from the get go lmao.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
i hate that this is now the future of computing