Ask HN: Lenovo encouraging Chromebook users to install Linux?
I was surprised to see that Lenovo has a guide to installing the Linux distro of your choosing on a Lenovo Chromebook device. I guess the cynic in me expects that companies want you to use whatever OS is bundled with the hardware rather than encouraging users to use the hardware the way they'd like -- or at least that they wouldn't want to make it easy to overwrite the ChromeOS install by providing a helpful how-to! Can anyone think of why Lenovo would do this? I would expect that this would potentially draw the ire of Google, but surely Lenovo has thought this through and maybe knows Google doesn't care enough? Just curious if anyone can speak to Lenovo's incentive calculus here https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/operating-systems/install-linux-chromebook/ (Ps: the guide is somewhat out of date -- for those curious, this seems t
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I was surprised to see that Lenovo has a guide to installing the Linux distro of your choosing on a Lenovo Chromebook device. I guess the cynic in me expects that companies want you to use whatever OS is bundled with the hardware rather than encouraging users to use the hardware
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- vector_spaces
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews