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Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Starting next year, Google will provide Chromebook security patches and software upgrades for up to a decade. This will effectively guarantee that no existing Chromebook will expire within the next two years.

However, a Google spokesperson added the caveat that, "In making changes to the expiration policy, we have to coordinate with each partner making any component in these devices. It requires a security and performance guarantee from the makers." Other Google sources indicated that the major Chromebook vendors are expected to work with the company to extend their hardware's lifespan.

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[–] epyon22 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I wonder if it'd just be easier to open these up to Linux distros. Out of the 3 Chromebooks I have once they go out of support they are on a quick decline to just becoming trash because I can't do anything with them after that. At least traditional PC hardware I could just put Linux on it and have a device for years to come when the hardware actually fails.

Edit just to clarify none of my devices are supported by galliumos or as far as I know any other Linux distros

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you tried this? Apparently it takes only 4 clicks to enable Linux.

[–] epyon22 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep use it all the time but the containers fill the hd quickly and aren't exactly native so there are some quirks. Plus that doesn't help much when underlying os goes out of support.

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