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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment by Laremere on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:14PM (#37783725)
I loved Chromebooks. However I've been pretty turned off by them when my Chromebook which was working perfectly fine recently told me it's not getting security updates anymore. Now because the OS and browser are the same machine, the whole system is insecure.

Next laptop will be a framework, so I guess I'll see how that goes.

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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment by septic-liqueur on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:19PM (#37783778)
They've extended updates recently https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366

For old models as well

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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment by TheCycoONE on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:14PM (#37786793)
Not for the ones that ended support this August.

I have a kevin (Samsung Plus v1) and flashed it with libreboot for Linux at that point.

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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment by heresie-dabord on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:32PM (#37785097)
Similar to you, I'm a happy Chromebook customer with a good Chromebook that no longer receives updates since earlier this year. But Google also offers ChromeOS Flex [1] which I now run on my Chromebook.

You can even install ChromeOS Flex on a non-ChromeOS PC.

[1] https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_ca/os/chromeosflex/

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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment by foota on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:47PM (#37785218)
I think they're decoupling the os and browser releases, although I'm not sure if it works for old ones or not. https://www.androidpolice.com/chromebook-decouple-chrome-fro...
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