{"id":13988,"date":"2022-02-16T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/google-announces-chrome-os-flex-for-ordinary-pcs-macs-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:13:07","slug":"google-announces-chrome-os-flex-for-ordinary-pcs-macs-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/google-announces-chrome-os-flex-for-ordinary-pcs-macs-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Google announces Chrome OS Flex for ordinary PCs, Macs \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google has announced<\/a> early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Flex, which runs on ordinary x86 hardware, offering the chance to revive older PCs or even out-of-support Macs.<\/p>\n

The year of Linux on the desktop actually arrived a few years back, but the world didn’t notice. Chromebook sales did great<\/a> early last year, although they did tail off later<\/a>. Sure, the numbers are dropping this year<\/a> \u2013 but some 50 million customers now have quite new ones.<\/p>\n

Chrome OS is a specialised Linux distro, originally based<\/a> on Gentoo, with the Aura Shell (“ash<\/a>“). It has a fancy partitioning system with duplicate root partitions which update one another, allowing rollback of unsuccessful updates.<\/p>\n

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