You can even try Chrome OS Flex without installing it by booting directly from a USB drive and decide later if you actually want to commit. Google did, unfortunately, note that Chrome OS Flex doesn’t currently support Android apps or the Google Play Store.īugs ahead - Google’s new OS is free to download on the Chrome OS Flex website, where you’ll also get installation instructions and see which devices are certified. And for enterprises or schools, you can quickly install Chrome OS Flex through USB or network deployment. Google’s OS design features a very minimalistic and straightforward user interface and automatically runs security updates on a regular basis. Since Chrome OS Flex is basically the existing Chrome OS, there will also be very little to mess up when using it. Thomas Riedl, Google’s director of product, enterprise, and education, says in Google’s blog post that they’ve already been testing Chrome OS Flex with Google users and other large customers. But unlike CloudReady, Chrome OS Flex will have Google Assistant, the Chrome browser, and Nearby Sharing baked right in.
Old laptop, new OS - Google says that Chrome OS Flex will pretty much be identical to the existing Chrome OS, since they’re built on the same codebase. Neverware’s program more or less served as the basis for Chrome OS Flex, which really just looks like a more polished and officially-supported version of CloudReady. This move comes a couple of years after Google acquired Neverware, which developed an operating system built on Chromium OS called CloudReady.
This way, businesses and schools don’t have to buy new hardware to support the latest operating system, they can just convert their existing laptops with Chrome OS Flex instead. Google is definitely targeting enterprise applications for this, so large companies and school systems can update their entire stock of old laptops into idiot-proof Chromebooks. Google just released the Chrome OS Flex in early access, which lets you install the operating system that you see on Chromebooks onto compatible PCs or Macs.
But instead of being dead weight, Google is giving us the option to convert them into Chromebooks with its new Chrome OS Flex. We all probably have that one dying laptop that barely has enough juice to keep up with macOS Monterey or Windows 11.
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