Here's How to Install Any Linux Operating System on Your Chromebook

Posted by hanuca on Jul 12, 2016 4:31 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Chromebooks are very cool and incredibly cheap portable laptops, powered by Chrome OS, a Linux kernel-based operating system, but it might turn out that Chrome OS is a very limited operating system.

Because of this, many users prefer to install a different GNU/Linux operating system, either by dual-booting with Chrome OS or by entirely replacing it. There are already numerous tutorials out there on how to achieve the dual-booting method of installing a Linux OS on your Chromebook, but in this guide, we'll try to explain the latter.

Yes, that's right, replacing your Chrome OS with a GNU/Linux distribution is what we want to teach you, just in case you decided Chrome OS is too limited for your needs or because Google no longer offers updates for your Chromebook. And we have the perfect operating system to try this, Solus, which just become a rolling release distro.

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