John  

In other news, a friend loaned me his "suzyqable" debugging cable so I could disable the firmware write protect on my 2017 Pixelbook.

Now to replace the firmware and install Linux in place of !

(I've largely replaced the Pixelbook with a Framework Chromebook (which is fantastic!) so this will let me continue to get use out of the Pixelbook hardware for those times when I really need a bare-metal Linux environment.)

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John  

Success!

My Pixelbook now runs instead of !

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John
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Success! (Part Deux!)

My Pixelbook now runs instead of instead of . (So far, it seems to handle the Chromebook hardware a little better.)

This should be fun - I've not used an RPM-based Linux system for personal use since before Fedora was a thing. Wish me luck! 🤞

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John  

And I found a great resource tweaking the experience to be a bit smoother on a :

github.com/jmontleon/pixelbook

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plasmoidia  

@john_b nice! I use Fedora on my Linux boxes. Just got used to it from it handling 64-bit the best back when that was new.

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FireMonkey  

@john_b
Hmm, I am writing this on an older Asus 302c that will lose it's ChromeOs updates in June. I last used RPMs with RedHat...4.x? I imagine I can swap in a Linux distro on this machine sometime in the summer. Project for when I have time. :^)

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John  

@FireMonkey if/when you feel up for it, mrchromebox.tech/ has some handy scripts, firmwares, and instructions to help you give your Chromebook new purpose. 👍

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