Has anyone been able to figure out how to add an enrollment option to a ChromiumOS fork that is not using Google's enrollment process? FydeOS figured this out, and have their own personal and enterprise enrollment process. I'm trying to figure out the same with creating a new ChromiumOS fork, but information on the internets is very scarce.

Does anyone know of the the HD 5450 line of GPUs are supported? And if they aren't directly supported does anyone know a work around?

Most of you are probably running ChromeOS with GPU intact. Or straight up making it as workstation.

Let's Discuss...

I'm running.

MODEL: HP BS-xx (JC04 battery series) the one with no internal fans 😞. Display: generic LD1 (1366x768) CPU: Intel Celeron N3060 (2016 brasswell) GPU: Intel HD400 RAM: 8GB LPDDR3 (ORIGINALLY 4GB, Planning to revert this as it doesn't really have that much of impact) HDD: 512GB Toshiba

I know it's not the best but it got me through tough times.

My Experience:

Aside from the aging hardware. This setup still put up a fight especially in general usage like doing essay, programming, watching @1080p and production. The visuals are great as always. Responsive honestly I haven't encountered any graphical error in my time navigating it.

My expectation:

Still waiting for the playstore. Happy to know that there are improvements in Google Ecosystem of devices. And they've fixed the Microphone 🎙️ in LDE. Just wish there are more apps out of the box. Glad that you can install apps from the Explore App. Although having a playstore would be better.

Trying to run Chromeos flex off of USB. Which option do I choose to do so?

Can I have Flex installed on an SSD and then install an extra hard drive to add additional storage space?

If windows has .bin and .exe as its executable binary, and msi as its package format.
If macos has .dmg as its package format. but with an unclear file extension for executables.

there must be a way to install .x86_64 apps in chrome os flex...

like and other concerns the PLAYSTORE for x86_64 is indeed real and some chromebooks have it so why not Chrome OS Flex...

LDE is just too slow and offers less performance than its linux counterpart.

if any got some info that would be a great help resolving this mystery...

I'm trying to install ChromeOSFlex on my old Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series but I can't see the USB drive in the UEFI Boot options. I know the USB drive has the installation files as I've tested on another computer and it's booted all the way through to the installation/try first options.

The laptop has 4 USB ports and I've tried them all without any success. Perhaps it's an extra BIOS setting I need?

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I saw comments from 2 years ago saying you cant install Chrome Os Flex on USB pendrive - you can.

What you will need:

1. You have to physically disconnect hard drives from computer/laptop.

2. You need to have 2 USB sticks - one will be used as "disk" and other is to create USB installation media.

What to do:

1. Disconnect all hard drives.

2. Create ChromeOs Flex installer on USB stick.

3. Connect both USB sticks into computer.

4. Just install it as usual.

Notes:

1. Every time you connect it to new PC you will have to set as it was just newly installed system - setting things up last 3 minutes, so no biggie. You can disconnect and connect USB to same computer without setting thing up everytime.

2. Sometimes icon images disappear. To restore them you have to start program that has missing icon and then restart your computer.

I kept messing up the installer USB before because I was using Rufus and the flex img file. Now I used the Chromebook recovery utility and it flashed the USB proper and was able to install it. I thought it was not going to work because the PC doesn't have UEFI, but it did work. How secure is chrome os flex on a laptop that shipped with windows 7?

I was running Chrome OS Flex on my computer that runs Linux Mint off of a USB that has 128 GB (trying it out before fully installing it) and when I was looking at the storage, I saw that it only had 150 or so GB of storage usable and 130+ GB was apparently "already used".

There are two problems with this: on my usual OS (Linux Mint) it says that 220+ GB is free and I have no large files that are downloaded, so why is ChromeOS Flex saying that 130+ GB is being used?

Secondly, why is ChromeOS Flex not utilizing the full amount of storage that I have? Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: I installed ChromeOS Flex and storage works perfectly

I have an HP Elite Notebook, and about 1 year ago i installed Flex on it. It has been working fine until two days ago. Basically, when I open the lid, waking up Flex, I get a blinking screen - it is cycling on / off about every 2 seconds. When on, it is showing what one would expect, and I can even start/stop apps and bring up/close web sites. I made sure I am on the latest version of Flex (I am) and here's even the more curious part, if I reboot the machine, the login screen does not blink, nor is there any blinking following that UNTIL i close and then reopen the lid. Then I am back to square 1. Any ideas?

I have managed to install ChromeOS Flex on this machine. I am quite happy as almost everything works out of the box except there is no audio from internal speakers.

Audio works with Bluetooth devices and also from the audio jack.

It seems that this device is using a Realtek ALC294 card which is a little problematic. People managed to fix the problem on Linux with simple command line like:

sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0xf
sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x400 0x7774

Or in other cases I have found that by passing the patch argument to the modprobe command could solve

sudo modprobe snd_hda_codec_realtek patch=alc294-dell

But I guess I will be out of luck with that.

Just wanted to report that the AMD Ryzen™ 7 7730U is probably the best AMD processor you can get to work on ChromeOS Flex.

Also worth noticing that the MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 wifi/BT card works properly.

The laptop also has a touchscreen, which works as well.

Here is the lspci of the PC

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron Technology Inc 2400 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less) (rev 03)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Barcelo (rev c4)
04:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
04:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
04:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
04:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
04:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller

Hi everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with my Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Flex Chromebook (ChromeOS 132). The Chromebook keeps automatically connecting to my old Pixel 4, even though I’ve removed it from the list of connected devices. Even after several Powerwashes, the Pixel 4 still shows up (when setting up phone hub/connected devices) and seems to block any attempt to pair my new Pixel 8.

I can’t seem to fully delete the Pixel 4 or reset the Bluetooth cache. I tried in standard bluetooth setting, in chrome://bluetooth-internals, tried in chrome://proximity-auth (enrolling and syncing). I also reset the pixel 4 to factory setttings, removed my google account from the phone, tried the *#*#2884936#*#* trick on the pixel 8, multiple restarts on all 3 devices, turning bluetooth off and on.

I'm seriously lost at this point... I’d really appreciate any advice on how to:

1. Permanently remove the old Pixel 4.
2. Successfully pair my Pixel 8 with the Chromebook.

Thanks so much for your help!

I was trying to install chrome is flex and it wouldn't let me Sellect a usb

I installed Chrome OS Flex on my laptop recently. The requirements said it only takes around 16GB of storage after installation. But when I checked the storage usage after installing the OS, it said that the system had taken 170GB of space. Is it like a dedicated partition the OS has created? Or if I have done something wrong?

Title says it all. I was wondering whether I can install CoSF with a fully encrypted disk and not just the home folder for extra layers of security.

We need help. OS - Cloudready. My father accidentally deleted a folder (200 Gb mp3 music collection) from the system disk (local HDD storage). Then via crome\flags enabled "Recycle Bin". Then, the Trash folder was displayed in the "My Files" app, but there are no deleted files in it. Question: is there any way to recover deleted folders and files and where to look for them? P.S. It is noteworthy that the size of the free space remained the same as it was before the deletion - before he deleted the music folder, the size of the free space on the disk was 50 GB, after deleting the folder (the folder size was 200 GB), the size of free space on the local storage remained the same - 50 GB. Thank you for any advice. I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong place (the cloudready support forum is no longer available).

I have an old Acer Aspire Switch 10 and just installed ChromeOSFlex and brightness control doesn’t work at all. I can lower it and increase it but it’s not functional. Is there any possibility to solve this?

Update: Found a solution that works for me. -Turn on dark mode on OS and from the flags on Chrome browser.

-There is an extension called Night shift mode that dims the entire chrome browser which is very similar to lowered brightness.

Just installed on an old Asus laptop with a 256GB SSD but in the files app it only shows 3.7GB is avalible.

How can i fix this?

SOLVED: I was using a guest account, logging in with a google account fixed the issue.

This is what shows up when i go to chrome://system and expand the disk_usage section. it can see the 212GB under /dev/sda1

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I own an LG gram 2020 which was pre-installed with Windows 10. I recently decided to flash chrome OS flex on it. Everything is working fine except the fingerprint sensor which does not work now.

Is there anyway we can install the drivers in chrome OS to operate the fingerprint sensor?

• #crostini-gpu-support
• #crostini-containerless removes the LXD layer and improves Crostini performance. After enabling GPU support and this flag, the Factorio game from Steam improved from three to five FPS to 60+ FPS. (BUT I AM NOT 100% SURE IF THIS ONE ACTUALLY IMPROVE SOMETHING OR NOT)
• #cros-mall is a cool magazine with different apps that can be useful for searching for official PWAs.
• #web-app-universal-install allows you to use any website as a PWA. This is useful for websites that do not officially support PWA. You can click Settings-> Cast, Save and Share-> Install page as app.

This is all after checking the flags menu for about 30-40 mins, let me know some gems if you find out something cool!

Using ChromeOS Flex, Version 131.0.6778.241 (Official Build) (64-bit) . . .

I'm attempting to use Selenium (inside a Python script).

Selenium needs the path to the Chrome binaries. (The browser, that is--not the OS.)

A Gemini inquiry suggested these locations:

/usr/bin/chrome

/opt/google/chrome

Those locations are not valid.

The command . . .

$ which chrome

. . . returns no result.

My best guess is that the binaries may be lurking in . . .

/opt/google/cros-containers/bin/

. . . but there be a maze of twisty passages.

What path should I provide to Selenium?

While the power lights are still normal, the speaker doesn't make sound (I had the boot sound enabled, so I can tell) and the screen is not on. It was working fine for the longest time, but now it won't do anything. I believe it could've been because I had it plugged into a monitor through HDMI for weeks, because it only stopped working when I plugged it out. Tried to see if it'd work again by connecting it to a monitor, but that didn't work either. Please help.

Hi there, after a few years, I bought this kind of "surface", I wanted to revive it using another OS, so I remembered that Chrome Os existed, so I tried but every time I launched the installation through USB, it said it couldn't install, why? Chrome OS and I don't know. If someone have tried to install Chrome OS in this device, I could use some help or if it's not possible at all, let me know.

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve got an old tablet, the Onda V975w, running Windows 10. I figured it’s time to breathe new life into it by installing Chrome OS Flex.

Here’s the problem: I can’t get the USB to show up in BIOS. The tablet uses an American Megatrends BIOS, and it seems super picky.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Created a bootable USB using Rufus, Unetbootin, and Google’s Chrome OS recovery extension.
• Tried different USB flash drives.
• Double-checked the BIOS settings, but the USB just won’t appear. 😔

Any suggestions on what else I can do to make this work? Appreciate any advice or tips! 🙏

So i want to install chromeos on a different laptop, If i dont use chrome os flex will it still work or will it say something like "oh this isnt the correct device to usee this on blah blah blah"

yes I know this is probably a dumb question