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.
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
Have you tried this? Apparently it takes only 4 clicks to enable Linux.
Apparently Google disables the whole Chromebook after Support. So even if it would work without updates Google is disabling the laptop software side. Nobody should support this kind of ewaste production.
Who owns the Chromebook? Me who bought it, or Google?