Starting next year, Google will provide Chromebook security patches and software upgrades for up to a decade. This will effectively guarantee that no existing Chromebook will expire within the next two years.
However, a Google spokesperson added the caveat that, “In making changes to the expiration policy, we have to coordinate with each partner making any component in these devices. It requires a security and performance guarantee from the makers.” Other Google sources indicated that the major Chromebook vendors are expected to work with the company to extend their hardware’s lifespan.
Have you tried this? Apparently it takes only 4 clicks to enable Linux.
That’s running Linux in a container. And while it works REALLY well overall, they were talking about replacing the core OS entirely.
Apparently Google disables the whole Chromebook after Support. So even if it would work without updates Google is disabling the laptop software side. Nobody should support this kind of ewaste production.
Who owns the Chromebook? Me who bought it, or Google?
Yep use it all the time but the containers fill the hd quickly and aren’t exactly native so there are some quirks. Plus that doesn’t help much when underlying os goes out of support.