• Lexam@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.)

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        1 year ago

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