• @Lexam@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Bought a cheap laptop with chrome os. Wouldn’t let me install Linux. I returned the laptop.

    • @SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works
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      811 months ago

      That’s preposterous. Even the new ARM Macs let you install Linux (although they don’t supply any drivers, leave the devs to reverse engineer everything, which means the only currently supported Linux distro is Asahi Linux (Arch). But thats still better than locking the BIOS/whatever bootloader Chromebooks use.)

      • _cnt0
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        511 months ago

        Fyi: An official “Asahi spin” of fedora is coming up. It’s going to be released later this year, if I remember correctly.

      • @fluxion@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        Even more preposterous given ChromeOS is basically a Linux distro and would benefit from general Linux users and devs adopting/supporting their hardware

    • @i_lost_my_bagelA
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      211 months ago

      Don’t you just have to take out the write protect screw or whatever and flash a new bios?