Create a Chrome OS Flex installation drive You’ll need the Chromebook Recovery Utility. Screenshot: Google Chrome Find yourself a USB drive with 8GB capacity or more, and get all the files you ...

Now that a Google Chrome notebook is actually available (for about 60,000 people who got in on the beta test), he’s making it easy to replace Chrome OS (although to be fair, it’s just as easy ...

Chrome OS Flex was made possible after Google acquired Neverware, the makers of CloudReady, in 2020. It has since worked with the team to integrate CloudReady into a Chrome-branded product.

As an interesting side note, Google showed a demo of Chrome OS running on a netbook. When asked, a Google rep said that it was an Eee PC. It wasn’t.

Unfortunately, Chrome OS Flex has a very different use case and I would only recommend installing it if you meet the exact use case it addresses. The other option, of course, is to just install ...