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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by hedora on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:02PM (#37513285)
However, Chromebooks supposedly come with well-tested Linux support.

If this is a guarantee that the drivers will get security updates for 10 years and be mainlined into the linux kernel (and if there is a way to get these things with a normal keyboard and BIOS), then this is great news.

I'd never run ChromeOS, but would happily buy a flagship-grade laptop that lived up to the expectations in the previous paragraph (and then run Linux or even BSD on it).

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by walteweiss on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:12PM (#37525286)
Why BIOS (did you mean UEFI?) when it runs the best boot loader, which is Coreboot¹. Many users would love to re-flash their bios/uefi for it, if it’s supported.

1: https://www.coreboot.org/

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