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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"being a lot of work" = I couldn't follow a guide.

Honestly, Chromebooks are among some of the easiest systems to boot a Linux distro on. Far easier than, say, Bootcamp.

Exceptions apply to enterprise or education enrolled systems as they lock those devices down. Corporations and schools, however, do have the option to release the hardware and allow modifications to the system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, but then multiply that guide x1000 systems, losing google enterprise, switching over to a unix directory system, setting up infrastructure, network shares, printers, and everything and it's not just a guide - it's a team of people working for weeks to get it set up. Of course to us it's easy, it'd just be a computer or two. To an entire company/school it may be over a million dollars to swap over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agree. I've got a chromebook running Linux, for that I had to open it up and remove a screw. It takes around 15 minutes if you've done it before, so for bulk migration to Linux it's not feasible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You had to remove a screw to install Linux? Is that like a physical tampering prevention measure? Makes me think of how I had to swap a jumper to install a GPU in an old HP tower that had integrated video.