Chrome OS Flex Brings Life To Previous {Hardware}
For programs missing TPM 2.0 and people merely not taken with transferring to Home windows 11, the brand new Chrome OS Flex presents another for now, and maybe previous Oct. 14th, 2025 when Home windows 10 hits it’s EOL; at the least that’s the date as of now. This isn’t an OS for the technically inclined, comparable to these studying this, for a Linux distro will probably be extra highly effective and adroit at working the varied emulators and functions we use. As a substitute Chrome OS Flex is a watered down Linux OS designed for the non-technically inclined that simply need a pc that works.
The {hardware} necessities are gentle, you want is a pc which might boot from USB and has a 64bit x86 processor, in addition to 4GB of RAM and 16GB of native storage; sorry no ARM assist right now. The interface is much like Chrome OS’s Gentoo heritage utilizing the Aura Shell, however making the most of Google’s buy of NeverWare. Previous to being absorbed into Google, NeverWare streamlined the arcane course of of putting in Chrome OS on a non-Chromebook with their CloudReady product and that’s the place Chrome OS Flex got here from.
There’s extra data on what the brand new OS can and might’t do within the hyperlink to Ars Technica’s article on the prime in addition to at The Register.
