I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too

Re:I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too by ototot on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:56PM (#48053324)

You can even install linux on Chromebooks, and ChromeOS has upstreamed / opensource many of their codes.

In other perspective, ChromeOS supports running Linux apps w/ GUI without much differences. You just open your terminal, type `apt install XXX`, then `XXX` should work out-of-the box.

I don't see any reasons that ChromeOS is less open then macOS

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Re:I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too by fragmede on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:33PM (#48053783)

Any? Crostini is neat and all, but it's a VM running inside of ChromeOS, so it's restricted in what it can do.

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Re:I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too by s1gsegv on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:04PM (#48055741)

The entire system firmware is open source, so it’s relatively straightforward to replace the system firmware with Coreboot and EDKII to boot normal UEFI Linux. It works excellent. mrchromebox.tech and docs.chrultrabook.com have all the nitty gritty details.

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Re:I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too by mickelsen on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:12PM (#48068830)

x86 only tho

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