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  

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

github.com/jmontleon/pixelbook

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