We've tested this guide on an Acer C740 Chromebook. ![]() Also, you'll not see any bootloader with some Chromebook models. Lastly, the third thing is that you'll need to have a Chromebook with Intel hardware, not ARM. The second thing is that every time you want to access your new Linux operating system, you'll have to press the CTRL+L keyboard shortcut. First, if you follow the next instructions to install a GNU/Linux distribution, you'll erase your Chrome OS installation, but you can recover it later using various methods provided by Google on their support website. Enabling developer mode in Chrome OS and activating USB bootīefore we get started, we would like to inform you about a few things. Of course, the following tutorial should work with any other distro. ![]() The best thing about Solus is that it kind of looks like Chrome OS, so you'll get not only the looks of it, which you can fully bend to your needs, but also the whole power of a stable, fast, full-featured, and new rolling release Linux operating system. ![]() And we have the perfect operating system to try this, Solus, which has just become a rolling release distro. Yes, that's right, replacing your Chrome OS with a GNU/Linux distribution is what we want to teach you, just in case you decide Chrome OS is too limited for your needs or because Google no longer offers updates for your Chromebook. There are already numerous tutorials out there on how to employ the dual-booting method of installing a Linux OS on your Chromebook, but in this guide, we'll try to explain the latter. Chromebooks are very cool and incredibly cheap portable laptops powered by Chrome OS, a Linux kernel-based operating system created by the Google search engine giant, but sometimes it might turn out that they are running a very limited OS.īecause of this, many users prefer to install a different GNU/Linux operating system, either by dual-booting with Chrome OS or by entirely replacing it.
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