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 Chromebooks are lightweight laptops built around ChromeOS, a fast, secure, cloud-centric OS from Google. They’re popular because they’re cheap, have long battery life, and boot quickly. Under the hood many Chromebooks use standard Intel/ARM hardware and can run full Linux or other OSes once you remove the restrictions ChromeOS places on the machine. Chromebooks are lightweight laptops built around ChromeOS, a fast, secure, cloud-centric OS from Google. They’re popular because they’re cheap, have long battery life, and boot quickly. Under the hood many Chromebooks use standard Intel/ARM hardware and can run full Linux or other OSes once you remove the restrictions ChromeOS places on the machine.
  
-  * +  * Enable **Developer Mode**  to run a chroot (e.g., Crostini / Crouton) or a full Linux install. 
- +  * Replace stock firmware with **Coreboot**  or **Libreboot**  (or use MrChromebox firmware) to remove Google’s verified-boot restrictions. 
-Enable **Developer Mode**  to run a chroot (e.g., Crostini / Crouton) or a full Linux install. +  * Boot a normal Linux distro (Ubuntu, Arch, Debian) from USB or internal storage. 
- +  * Reuse Chromebooks as lightweight servers, kiosks, or simple homelab nodes.
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-Replace stock firmware with **Coreboot**  or **Libreboot**  (or use MrChromebox firmware) to remove Google’s verified-boot restrictions. +
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-Boot a normal Linux distro (Ubuntu, Arch, Debian) from USB or internal storage. +
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-Reuse Chromebooks as lightweight servers, kiosks, or simple homelab nodes.+