How To Install Chrome OS Flex On To A Windows Laptop Or Desktop PC - Step By Step Installation Guide

How To Install Chrome OS Flex On To A Windows Laptop Or Desktop PC - Step By Step Installation Guide
So, In this step by step video guide I'm doing two things in one and answering two questions. How To Install Chrome OS Flex On A Windows Laptop PC & How To Turn A Windows Laptop Into A Chrome OS Flex Chromebook.
While this Chrome OS Flex step by step install guide is using a Windows Laptop PC for the installation. It’s the exact same process to install Chrome OS Flex to a Windows Desktop PC.
Here's some links to USB flash drives & Chromebooks on Amazon, I personally use SanDisk for important stuff.
SanDisk USB Flash Drives geni.us/SandiskUSBFlashDrives
Other USB Flash Drives geni.us/USBFlashDrives
Chromebooks on Amazon: geni.us/ChromebooksOnAmazon
This video has very detailed and easy to follow step by step guide on how to prepare a Chrome OS Flex bootable live USB flash drive which can also be used as a USB installation flash drive, which is wha I'm doing in this video.
I also give a very detailed guide on who to actually install Chrome OS Flex and also how to select the USB flash drive as the boot device.
I then show a little use of Chrome OS Flex on the Surface GO 2 after its installation.
With the release of Google's Chrome OS Flex, we now have a fully legitimate way of installing Chrome OS onto certain Windows laptops and desktops and also certain Mac desktops and laptops.
In this example I'm using a Windows laptop/tablet, that being a Microsoft Surface Pro 2. This laptop/tablet is now getting on a bit and does run a bit slow under Windows these days, so is a prime candidate for Chrome OS.
After installing Chrome OS Flex onto the Surface Pro 2 it performed amazingly well and was really fast at booting and powering down and also very snappy with the interface. As you can see in the video I looked at a few things as far as the user interface was concerned and also the KZbin app.
The bottom line here is that Chrome OS Flex is easily good enough for most day to day tasks, such as certain social media stuff, video streaming with the likes of KZbin, music streaming with Spotify etc. and it's also great for writing e-mails and web browsing.
Maybe the best bit is that Chrome OS Flex breathes new life into old computers and keeps them going with good purpose. This is especially important for the planet and e-waste and is also an excellent option for those with little money to be able to have a computer and be able to access the internet and keep up to date with global news and to keep in touch with family and friends.
You can basically see this tutorial as the solution on how to turn your Windows PC into a Chromebook or how to turn your Windows laptop into a Chromebook. And the same for Mac, how to turn your MacBook into a Chromebook.
Here is the link to the Chromebook Recovery Utility, this will work with Chrome on a Windows desktop or laptop and also Chrome on macOS computers such as Apple MacBook and other Mac laptops and Apple Mac desktops.
chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
Manufacturer Boot key
Acer F2
Apple Hold Option (next to the ⌘ key)
Asus Del
Dell F12
Gateway F1
HP F9
Intel F2
Lenovo F12
Toshiba F2 or F12
Other Try pressing Esc, any of F1-F12 keys, or Enter
Here's the chapters for this video:
00:00 Introduction
00:57 Creating the Chrome OS Flex USB flash drive
06:41 Installing Chrome OS Flex first half
10:14 Installing Chrome OS Flex second half
12:55 A quick look after the installation
16:05 End summary
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[@veeonerotate]

Such a clear and easy video to follow. Thanks for your time in producing the video.

[@neon_trotsky]

This is really great. I am really very interested in chrome os flex. This could be a much better alternative for older folks that just want simplicity.

[@giridharramakrishnan4373]

I have a Lenovo Ideapad miix 700 with 8 GB RAM & 256 GB SSD. It was a decent competitor to Surface when it came out a few years back. But it did not qualify for a Windows 11 update as well as becoming sluggish. I decided to make it a chromebook. Someone on social media suggested to install Chrome Flex. Your video was so helpful and instructive to do it. I did not encounter any hitch and now I have a high end Chromebook in place of a sluggish Windows tablet. Thanks once again for putting out this video.

[@DavidHarry]

That’s great. I’m happy that you have been able to get extra use from your laptop 👍. Cheers, Dave.

[@ScottDabson]

Great job ! I recently had to recover a Chromebook using that tool. It took me several attempts. You got it done smoothly. I'm going to try on some of my old laptops. Doing it on a surface tablet is a great use of this application.

[@nirmal2140]

Change up your flash drive my friend and you may get fairer results!🤝

[@RobertLofrano]

It doesn't work anymore

[@deputy899]

Excellent precise instructions David. Nice one!

[@santopablo792]

Thanks Harry, I'm using my old laptop now. Asus 11 inch netbook. Works perfectly fine with chrome flex now I can use it for my work. Very nice. Thanks harry. More power to you.

[@squirrelarch]

Brilliant. A timely reminder. I was already using Cloudready which has now just become Google Chrome OS Flex. Hope this tutorial helps others give this a try. All the best.

[@DavidHarry]

Nice one 👍 Yes, looks likes Google are merging products and also starting a proper push for Chrome OS. Hopefully they do something similar with Android. Cheers, Dave.

[@jaakkotahtela123]

Do you mean that CloudReady automatically updates to Chrome OS Flex? I checked that they are both still available for downloading and installing seperately

[@DavidHarry]

@@jaakkotahtela123 Yes, Flex is basically the new CloudReady and when the final release is available it will update just the same way as Chrome OS does. Whether it gets Android app support on full release, I don’t know but I really do hope it does. Cheers, Dave.

[@jaakkotahtela123]

@@DavidHarry I meant that if I now download CloudReady (it’s still available for download), does it update automatically into Chrome OS Flex?

[@DavidHarry]

@@jaakkotahtela123 Ahh, I see what you mean. I don’t know but it’s not worth using CloudReady anyway as it is being replaced by Flex. Cheers, Dave.

[@naturalcare2373]

Thanks for the video, great info. Have an older laptop and i will try this setup.

[@jinkertsun]

Excellent video and great that you we’ve very enthusiastic about using the os with an old machine.

[@TonesAdventuresHD]

Wow! Surface 2 is really old and Chrome OS Flex did give it new life! Good one Dave!

[@DavidHarry]

That's right Tone, Flex works really well with old machines. But that's nothing, check this video out from this point onward on an even less powerful machine :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpaQeoWDeqZopa8 Cheers, Dave.

[@albertpaulfetalino1246]

thanks! for the very extensive, clear and excellent tutorial. just upgraded my old Dell Insipiron to Chrome OS Flex

[@DavidHarry]

Nice one, Albert. You are very welcome. Cheers, Dave.

[@shortyfeed6229]

bro i could not download..... It is always getting interrupted.I am using same laptop.Can you help me

[@SashaMirpour]

This is brilliant! Fast, secure and effortless.

[@DavidHarry]

Nice one, Sasha 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@kunuseri]

The video was very good and I was able to resurrect my old laptop into a working laptop! Thanks for the presentation it really helped me.

[@DavidHarry]

Awesome, I’m glad it helped and you are very welcome 👍

[@larryh9525]

David, the pace and flow of the video is excellent. Well done! I recently purchased a Chromebook as opposed to another lower-end Windows laptop (to use as a travel laptop) and I was blown away at the power and flexibility of Chrome OS. I don't think MS realizes it yet, but Chrome OS represents serious competition to Windows for casual computer users.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Larry. Thanks for your kind comment. Yes, MS and maybe to a degree, Apple, should look more closely at what’s going with Chrome OS and Flex. I’ve already installed it on three different old Windows X86 machines and also a modern 11th Gen Intel machine and it works flawlessly and is way snappier than Windows on the old machines. What’s probably the bigger surprise is that I’ve just installed it on an old Mac Mini, I think 2011 or 2012 and it worked well. What’s more interesting about the Mac is that it’s been effectively dead for a while, with no compatibility with the later OS versions. So, in this instance, Flex is definitely breathing new life into many machines who’s own manufacturers would consider EOL. Google will have obviously done this for financial gain, once people start hooking into extra services and apps via Chrome etc. However, a massively positive side effect of all this is that it can help to reduce e-waste and also give those with little money and people in developing countries, the real opportunity to have some sort of cheap computer system that’s quite capable of day to day tasks and to be able to join in with a global community wherever possible. Cheers, Dave.

[@jimemmonstein847]

It doesn't, and it hasn't in the more than decade it has been on the market their touch screen interfacing is abysmal and even Windows offers a superior product in this regard

[@sumitchaudhary343]

Without ms office suite chrome os is useless

[@dyscotopia]

@@sumitchaudhary343 ms word hasn't been a killer app in a long time. For 99% of people Google office and office 365 will be enough. I'd say the Adobe suites are the big issue, but those bloated beasties aren't going to run well on older machines anyhow.

[@thecasualgamer7061]

Its good for nothing except typing and printing so if you are a gamer keep windows

[@7or8]

This video is so perfect in presenting and audio quality, thanks for the video 🔥❤️

[@DavidHarry]

You are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@anniemaudedavis8773]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. Installing Chrome OS Flex on this ancient 2009-2010 Acer Aspire 5534 Laptop breathe life into this machine and save me some funds in the process. The instructions were very clear. This laptop was all set to be recycle. I had already wiped cleaned the hard drive over a year ago and was just procrastinating removing it. I had to reinstall Windows 7, but it is all good now. The only other hiccup I came across worth mentioning was trying to figure out how to move the Scan Disk in the BIOS to the BOOT position , done. I also did an update on the new OS and it is loading fast. I have 207 gigabytes to work/play with, Good Stuff. I have subscribed to your channel.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. I’m glad the video helped. I know OS Flex is a bit limited but it does help to stop certain older laptops and desktops from becoming landfill. It’s also a great way to use Google’s Cloud based office apps. Hopefully Google will add Android App capability to OS Flex further down the line, as they did with the full ChromeOS. This would really help to drive more people to OS Flex. And yes, it can be a bit of a pain getting to the USB stick for booting. Unfortunately, this is something that changes from one computer to another, or one brand to another, as there are many different BIOS types and boot key types. Thanks for the sub 👍 I’ve got a bunch of Mac and Apple stuff to catch up with but I hope to do more Chrome and Android stuff soon. Cheers, Dave.

[@markusklose11]

You can also upgrade the old Laptops for small money, the CPUs were socketed (what you dont have on modern hardware) at the time so a 2GhZ dual core Athlon or Intel processor + 4 GB RAM will speed up Windows 10 significantly. Did it for fun, works great.

[@suwyedaa4944]

​@@markusklose11why i use for lenovo yoga 11e cannot?😢

[@geoffreyobrien6381]

Nice work. Really helpful and clear!

[@DavidHarry]

Nice one, Geoffrey. I’m glad the video was helpful. Cheers, Dave.

[@zinozoldick8485]

Thanks very much, this was very useful 👍

[@nguyendang3194]

thanks for the information I just installed chrome os flex on to my old HP laptop that has only 32 gig of storage and a 4 gig of ram this OS make new life into my laptop it run very fast and easy to used for school as well thanks as again

[@danielshultz8008]

thank you very much the process was long and daunting and you video simplified it and i actually managed to preform it kudos

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Daniel. You are very welcome and thank you for your kind comment. Cheers, Dave.

[@maxgreece1]

Great video. Watched it this afternoon and then just for a laugh I setup Chrome on a stick and booted my 2013 11 inch Macbook Air onto it. It WORKS!! I can't believe it. The only problem I had was with my home wifi (combo 5GHz/2.4 GHz setup that does fool some devices). Got it working with my mobile phone's hotspot all fine and configured my google setup. I am now wondering if I plug into other devices will it reconfigure to those too. Used to carry my Apple setup on a stick that could boot any mac into my settings. Chrome doing the same thing? Could be useful if it does.

[@alphaandliarize]

I love his voice, very soothing

[@libinphilip1983]

Thank u David for this video.

[@buddymondragon928]

David, great presentation.

[@DavidHarry]

Thank you and you are very welcome. Cheers, Dave.

[@Humanoid38]

Great video! Thanks

[@ScarletAmethyst]

I'd say Chrome OS Flex would be useful for the $200-$300 laptops like the Gateway, HP Stream, and ASUS L410 which should be running Chrome OS rather than Windows 10/11 since the hardware isn't suited for Windows in mind. The downside of Flex compared to ChromeOS or FydeOS is you don't get Android app support though you can compensate this with an Android phone (such as Samsung or OnePlus), a Chromebook, or Windows 11 if it arrives although it doesn't use Google Play.

[@Ibrm.amp_official]

I got a hp stream

[@PhoenixWolfStudios]

yeah i agree, my tablet came with windows 10 but since it has an intel atom processor thats clocked at 1.4 ghz windows 10 ran painfully slow so chrome os fixed almost everything

[@rickss69]

Works great on the vast majority of laptops sold because they came with feeble processors and limited memory to begin with.

[@Bianchi77]

Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)

[@DavidHarry]

My pleasure!

[@Heisenberg_07]

Hey bro nice vid just curious how do u install the wifi drivers cuz mine are missing?

[@joca40942]

Fantastic video!

[@boywitharms4176]

i have downloaded it in my 9 year old laptop and works perfectly

[@moringabriel2022]

Very useful video! Might help to install on a crappy PC.

[@DavidHarry]

Glad I could help!

[@tc.chromiumc2334]

Great video! Thank you. I tried the USB boot option on my old Lenovo Yoga 11s. Really liked Chrome OS Flex. Booting up took a few trial and errors. Using SD card, when it works, it's not stable and crashes often (with built-in card reader or USB reader).... using USB key directly does work better. However, Chrome OS Flex doesn't seem to recognize the built-in wifi module. Tried using an USB wifi adapter I have lying around but didnt work either. My work-around is an USB ethernet adapter because the Yoga 11s doesnt have ethernet built-in. While it works, this work-around is not portable and dependent on available ethernet connection. Also not working is the mic and sound components. I guess the Yoga 11s is too proprietary. Great job on this video nevertheless.

[@tc.chromiumc2334]

Just tried Chrome OS Flex on an old Thinkpad T440. Ran perfectly. Everything works. As for the Yoga 11s, it is now running Ubuntu very smoothly. Everything works and running faster than Windows 7 that it originally came with.

[@satyanjoy]

Great guide, very detailed. I have an old lenovo netbook, will be a perfect candidate for this one. Google playstore will make it perfect

[@robertschulze7995]

I just gave this a try. The process of creating a bootable USB drive was very easy following your steps. The problem comes when trying to run Chrome from the USB drive. I wanted to give it a try before installing. The process is extremely, painfully, slooooooow!! I finally just got tired of waiting and gave up. the laptop I was trying this on is not that old and should have worked way faster. I did something similar a couple of years ago with a distro of Linux on a laptop even older than this one, and the process went way better. I would say that if you don't want or need something specific from Chrome, go with Linux.

[@arafatjahangir5309]

David, can you tell us about the ROM in the laptop? Like is it the inbuilt ssd? What size? If you added a new ssd what brand?

[@akulsairam9431]

Thank You So much for explaining step by step.. I had no issues while installing... @David Harry... TQSM...

[@DavidHarry]

You are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@DrorMadar]

Great video!! Thanx!

[@GreyStreet14]

Tried it after POST, it just shows the Chrome logo and gets stuck on a blank screen. So, until this is fixed, I'm going to stick with Neverware-Cloudready on Chromium. This is really interesting and I'd love to see them fix this the soonest. Great video, David.

[@arzobohemian]

Hey David ! Thanks for such a wonderful video. My computer don't boot from the hdd. It crashes when I remove my flash drive. Any suggestions !! 😅

[@mikegenesis7732]

Thank you bro, i wanna try it, but i need to install it on a old macbook too.! works it like the same way like for a windows machine.?

[@RayValleraSr]

Well done! Thank you.

[@DavidHarry]

Thank you too!

[@Digitalmedia4less]

I just installed Flex on my Surface Pro 3, and it works great. Bluetooth keyboard touchscreen all works fine. Super fast and battery life is much better.

[@DavidHarry]

Thanks for sharing 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@RICNGROUP]

Thank you for show about how to install .

[@jimhughsTV]

Nice thanks. Do you know if you can get ms OneDrive on chrome os? Other than via browser.

[@jackson041192]

Qual é o tempo que você teve de esperar até aparecer a tela onde escolhe se quer instalar ou testar ? Estou tentando instalar, mas o tempo está muito longo e não chego nessa tela de escolha.

[@startledemu]

Ps thank you for the videos they are very informative

[@calebkrauter4027]

Trying this on my surface pro one. Fingers crossed.

[@meap_me]

I do have 2 older laptops that I would like this to install it on! I'm waiting for the full release before installing

[@johanlotter1872]

Great video. I followed your instructions to the letter. But finally, after booting up, all I got was a screen (B&W) reading "chromeOS Flex" followed by a white screen. Your explanation was brilliant, but the software not so much! Correction, i am now in Chrome Flex. It's working! It is slower than my Windows 8.1but I think it will speed up soon. Video quality seems brighter than under windows. Possible?

[@fa046192]

Yes it works very good on old laptop.

[@afsecaira]

EXCELENT VIDEO. will it work on 32 bit intel atom laptop?

[@orangeclaw]

Brilliant, thanks.

[@mehboobulislam2134]

Hey David, thanks for the video. I have installed Chrome OS Flex on my surface 3. But, touchscreen is not working after the installation and the bluetooth cannot be toggled on. I tried via crosh > shell, but it’s not going into configuration mode and I am getting unknown command error. Can you please help me?

[@MizanurRahman-qs3ko]

Thanked you. 😊

[@DavidHarry]

You're welcome 😊

[@JanWillemMoltzer]

I am running the latest version of chrome os flex on a microsoft surface pro 3 runs like a beast....

[@MrA2G]

Mate loved the video! Subbed too! Now I want to find a cheap Surface 1-3 to try this out for myself! I wonder will chrome os flex get updates vis ota or will you need to update via flash drive or something?

[@DavidHarry]

Nice one, thanks for the sub. You don't even need an old Surface, even older, cheaper laptops will be just as good as Flex runs really well on a lot of old machines. I tried it on a less powerful laptop and it even played 4K 60FPS in the KZbin app, something the laptop can't do with Windows kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpaQeoWDeqZopa8 Cheers, Dave.

[@carmadboii2568]

Oh my god thanks, I have this 2020 asus notebook pc that had windows 10, it was really slow not it’s so quick!! Tysm

[@DavidHarry]

You are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@yato572]

Thanks man ur legend 🖤

[@englishwithmartin]

Thank you so much...❤❤❤

[@SujayVilash-sh6xe]

Brilliant video, David. I am going to use your directions to install ChromeOS Flex on my Surface Pro 3 which is now out of Microsoft support. Just a couple of questions. Did you have to turn off secure boot? And does the touch screen work?

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. I don’t have mine anymore but from memory, I do not touch the BIOS and I can’t remember if I tried the touch controls. Sorry I can’t be more helpful. Cheers, Dave.

[@princemehra12]

Thanks you so much

[@m2chip]

I might do this to a slow and terrible i3 surface pro 7, thank you for this video!

[@DavidHarry]

Although Flex is a bit limited at the moment, no Android apps PlayStore while it’s in beta. It runs amazingly well on older computers that can no longer really keep up with Windows. it really is very useful 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@dyscotopia]

People are so spoiled. I wouldn't necessarily want to go back to my 4gb i5 surface pro 2, but it's usable and my daily driver, a 2015 i7 hp spectre, isn't that much fancier. The pro 7 isn't even that old!

[@carmalac]

Already installed on a Surface Pro 7 i5, and power button and touch screen not working

[@m2chip]

@@carmalac that’s what happened to me, so I cleaned the drive now I need to reinstall windows

[@shujiling213]

Great thank you

[@fargogemini694]

Thank you

[@DavidHarry]

You're welcome

[@adrevanderwesthuizen7262]

This is so interesting. Thank you for making this video. I have an older (very slow) HP Celeron laptop somewhere with a damaged hard drive and I wonder if I can run this OS on it from a USB drive.

[@DavidHarry]

Give it a try, it should only take about 10 minutes test 👍 Cheers. Dave.

[@adrevanderwesthuizen7262]

@@DavidHarry it works!

[@DavidHarry]

@@adrevanderwesthuizen7262 Awesome 👍

[@RobinsonPratoSaavedra]

Thank you very much, great video, please could you share the iPad Pro support link 🙏🏻

[@DavidHarry]

iPad Pro support link?

[@RobWills81]

Great video 🙂

[@DavidHarry]

Thanks, Rob. Cheers, Dave.

[@peacecaker5329]

Thanks man 😁

[@EmanuelBatista85]

hey thank for this. one question? can i intall in a old windows 98 laptop, like sony gateway 1998

[@mexicanpanda]

Great video, answered my questions well. The only thing I want to point out is that that device is a Surface Pro 3 and not a Surface 2. Other than that, really enjoyed the info.

[@Blinkerd00d]

The portrait oriented windows home button gives away that it's a 3 every time lol

[@mexicanpanda]

@@Blinkerd00d Yea. lol

[@UniqueComputer-tx3du]

Very helpful.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. I’m glad the video was helpful 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[@_Ai_Angel]

How comes the look of your OS changes up or through you'll start menu changes I've got the new start menu

[@asifosman]

Thanks for posting this David. I followed the steps and finally when I tried to restart the laptop, I got this response; This kernel requires an x86-64 cpu but only detected an i686 cpu. Unable to boot. Please use a kernel appropriate to your cpu

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Asif. Unfortunately, this means that your computer is 32 Bit and Flex will only install onto computers that are 64 Bit :( Cheers, Dave.

[@asifosman]

@@DavidHarry thanks for clarification

[@boriccannoe]

its super helpfull

[@janlavallee4418]

Nice video, thanks. Installed on my Dell laptop this morning. I was using Thunderbird e-mail but apparently I can't install it on Chromebook? I don't want to use Gmail.

[@billmillar8148]

hi david tried the install with flash drive on a hp pavilion g series after reboot all i get is the chrome screen , then after a min or 2 a blank screen any help with this , i have tried many times ect but same result

[@saidyassin5498]

Hi David- Excellent video! I appreciate the work you put in it for the public to use. I am interested in installing Chrome Flex OS on my old apple laptop that I haven’t used in a many years. It is a 2004 PowerBook G4, 12” Screen, Processor Speed 1.33GHZ, 200 GB HD and 1.25 GB of memory. Would it work? Thanks in advance for your reply/subscribers/users.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Said. I'm still yet to try the out on an old Mac Mini, so don't know yet. Google do say that it is compatible with certain older Intel X86 Macs, I have some links to the Google Chrome OS Flex page in the description to this video that has extra info about compatibility. Cheers, Dave.

[@rogerlabarr8578]

Thank you!

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Roger. You're welcome! Cheers, Dave.

[@brianatwell1507]

Thanks for this. I installed it with no issues, but the only problem I'm having is no audio. Please help, i have an Asus t100ta

[@abumuhammad_3015]

Hi thank you for the video, I have an issue, after installing the cloudReady 2.0, the laptop are go8ng to shutdown and we need to turn it on after unplugging the usb.. but when I turn my laptop on, it is going into BIOS instead of Chrome.. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[@ImmortalChanger]

very nicely made video, with all the steps being clear. I didn't know how to install this thing on an old PC but this video helped me, though sadly it doesn't have android apps support (but it's still a beta so they might add it later on)

[@DavidHarry]

Thanks. Yes, the lack of Android and PlayStore support is a bit annoying, let’s hope that all gets added to the final release. Cheers, Dave.

[@ImmortalChanger]

@@DavidHarry I tried downloading ChromeOS Flex from the official page but it seems like it's only available for enterprises there so this video helped me. if you need Android app support, Brunch is still your best bet. I trust they'll add support later on

[@nuwanbalasooriya1445]

Thank you...

[@DavidHarry]

You're welcome!

[@burgerbruh3889]

chrome os flex is insane!

[@johnwalshaw]

I'm having trouble getting the image to download. Interested to know if there is a direct URL so I can use the local image option. I did some URL guessing but no luck so far.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi John. Here's somewhere that has the Chrome images. These are code named, so I don't know if Flex is in there or if there's something that's the same. It may be helpful for other stuff as well cros-updates-serving.appspot.com Cheers, Dave.

[@domitalain1]

I installed this on an old Dell Venue windows tablet but i cant seem to get the touch screen keyboard to show. If i can use the touch function on it, why cant i use the on screen keyboard for this?? Is there a way to enable this or i must always use a usb keyboard to type?? No one is talking about this yet it is encouraged to do so on tablets as well.

[@Digiflower5]

Thanks :D

[@nanogaminghd4286]

Does the camera work?? Always struggled with camera n wifi on Linux. If camera works, I am giving this a shot

[@denniswofford]

I came here just to enjoy David's wonderful accent.

[@DavidHarry]

But not quite as wonderful as your comment, Dennis. Cheers, Dave.

[@nathan22211]

any idea as to what touchscreens will work? I have a asus t100han laying around from my aunt that I might try this on. Hopefully the recovery tool works in brave

[@DavidHarry]

Try it in live USB mode first to find out, see my other recent videos for live mode.

[@Mike-yx8wf]

Hi David I installed chrome on surface and ended up losing all the drivers, sometimes it works minus the touchscreen and many other keyboard functions. Can i get driver support for my old laptop so i have chrome and all the functions of the old surface laptop. also it takes forever to come on as opposed to a chromebook.

[@scooterdude17]

Can this be installed on older Android tablets as well or just PC's?

[@UltraSupergumby]

So strange. My old Chromebook was not supported with OS update anymore. So I have flashed my BIOS in order to install full Linux OS on it and use it like that for a while with having always some issues with keyboard controls not working. Now I can get back with a supported Chrome OS on my old Chromebook by installing Chrome OS Flex through a USB key. Wow! No surprise, everything works very well. It is a Chromebook after all. That old Chromebook is now maintained up to date with the latest OS and security. So cool!

[@DavidHarry]

Yes, that's really cool. Unfortunately, a lot of Chromebooks can't be flashed to open their BIOS :( Cheers, Dave.

[@UltraSupergumby]

@@DavidHarry I think there are some models where you have the option of booting with an USB key. At the time I have followed the procedure available for installing Gallium OS

[@DavidHarry]

@@UltraSupergumby Yes, you are correct. However, some just can’t be done and some require a jumper being moved on the motherboard. It’s a real shame because, as you’ve rightly said, you’ll lose security updates etc. after a while and many older Chromebooks are on very old old versions that can’t be uploaded. Yet, installing Flex on the very same machine will bring it up to date with the latest security patches etc. I hope Google add the full Chrome OS feature of Android app compatibility on the final release, this would make Flex the best free OS and I’m sure it would be very popular. Cheers, Dave.

[@viktorplatson4121]

Wow, watched at 1.25 speed... this video should have been 2 minutes long, but to stretch it to 17... this take a lot of effort!

[@goshu7009]

I have an old Dell Vostro 1510. I will give it a try :P (I dont even have a working batery, using the old laptop directly, without batery;p )

[@s96822]

Any advantage to a small footprint Linux version that also runs snappy fast?

[@myaffe99]

I have an old AMD based Dell Inspiron One windows 7 all in one computer. Flex installed in minutes. Almost everything worked including wireless keyboard and mouse. The only problem is I am unable to turn on Bluetooth, makes signing in a bit cumbersome. Performance is more than adequate. I also installed it on a very old Dell netbook with an Intel CM3 processor. It installed no problem but runs like a turtle.

[@AxhayThakur]

hey i want to know that it will wipe everything from pc or just the one window drive.. example .. my pc is divided in c drive and d drive.. c is the main windows drive.. bit d is consist of my files like picture movies etc . so it will wipe both or just c..

[@vkrishnan12]

Does the surface webcam or windows in-built webcam work in Chrome OS Flex?

[@wildcat22]

Hiya, I made the usb and have ran flex from the usb on my Dell Inspiron 14 laptop, it runs fine so I installed it. It installed fine but when I try boot it up after shut down and remove usb, it just hangs on the opening Chrome splash screen. Any ideas what might be wrong?

[@danielboucher3027]

Thanks for your very useful video! I followed your instructions and successfully installed Chrome OS on my HP Compaq Presario laptop! But i am having an issue with the internal wifi? If i plug a wifi adapter then it works, no problem! My question us is there a fix for this? I have already power washed!!! Thanks for any help you can render, Daniel

[@DavidHarry]

Hi, Daniel. Unfortunately, some functions don’t work on some devices. I’m not sure if Google have updated their information but there’s a link in the video description to some extra Google formation. Cheers, Dave.