I thought that Chrome Flex OS was going to be supported for the foreseeable future. Guess they don't want people to reuse their still good hardware any more, and force them to buy a new device (which i cant afford).

Has anyone else seen this?

Very suspect that the new Googlebooks have just came out at an unaffordable price too...

I've been trying to get a PS4 controller to work on chromeos flex (148.0.7778.250) and it connects fine through Bluetooth, but the os just wont detect any input from the controller even tho it's connected, has anyone run into the same issue?

Long story short, I have ordered and returned two laptops from Amazon that I thought were a certified supported flex os model but when I go to install I run into issues where I try to install flex but cannot get past the Flex OS splash screen.

Does anyone have a laptop model they have purchased from Amazon that installs Flex successfully? I also need this laptop to have a 16-17" display.

i know theres many of us who are sat with acer laptops that have been locked, ive found the same problem.

this is a repeat of a post made some years ago now.

chromeos flex blocking bios, blackscreening upon pressing any usual boot keys, not accepting liveISOs, etc.

does anyone, anyone have a fix?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromeOSFlex/comments/yc6i2k/pls_help_cant_access_bios_on_chrome_os_flex/

thats the previous post.

id love to be able to use my shitty acer on linux once more.

chrome os is a VIRUS

For Chrome OS: I was having issues with this utility. I was getting the network error, verification error and writing error. I just figured out that the flash drive has to be a USB 3.0. I tried with several different size drives that were USB 2.0 and I kept getting errors. I ended up using a 32gb flash drive USB 3.0. It worked great. I hope this information is useful.

Does it have android support like the real Chromebook? Im planning on install it on an old laptop I had laying around d and I'm hoping it allows you to essentially mimic your phone on the laptop

My main priority now is to recover my old Windows files safely. I want to find out whether ChromeOS Flex erased my 256 GB SSD, my 1 TB HDD, or both, and whether my old files can still be recovered. I do not want to accidentally overwrite or permanently lose any recoverable data

How to slove this?

Update- this issues resolved after using Rufus

I upgraded yesterday my Acer CXI3 from stable to newest stable. It got stuck on a black screen with white ChromeOS logo.

I can recover with beta from https://cros.download/recovery/fizz

But, when it updates, the same happens (it gets stuck). I repeated it several times, not allowing immediate upgrade, and switching build to stable or to dev: same happens after OS update.

Finally, I recovered with LTC. This works okay. That is ChromeOS version 150.

Also, I have a Minisforum mini-PC (Venus series UN100C) with ChromeOS Flex. Same story. Except that sticking a USB stick inside one of its ports, allows ChromeOS Flex to boot.

In the end, I'm glad that I learned to use the LTC version: updates are really fast, and Android apps download really fast.

Ho da poco installato Chrome OS Flex sul mio laptop (Dell Latitude 5420 i3-1125g4, 16GB di RAM, 990 Evo Plus 2TB) giusto per prova e ho notato che solo il sistema pesa 328GB! Anche da appena installato non cambia nulla. Sono nuovo qui su Reddit. Grazie.

Hello, so this personalized list was chosen using a 2015 Macbook Air with 4GB of ram :)

GAMING

1. WebRetro (Github) - It's Retroarch, the option to save it offline as a html standalone is given after loading a game. I also recommend saving it as a web app so it can be in your start menu.

MEDIA CREATION

1. PaintZ (Github) - A simple raster art program that is currently a web app that works offline.
2. Tenacity (Codeberg) - A sound editor that spun off from Audacity, using Crostini it works well.
3. Openshot (Github) - A video editor with Crostini, HD is a bit intense for Macbook but works.

MEDIA VIEWING

1. Photo Viewer - Works perfectly using the built in Gallery app.
2. Music Player - Works perfectly using the built in Gallery app.
3. Video Player - Works perfectly using the built in Gallery app.

DOCUMENTS / MATHEMATICS

1. Calculator - Easily done with the built in Calculator app.
2. Text Editor - A great text editor for notes and code. Hopefully it gets ported into the OS soon.
3. Libre Office (Github) - A whole office suite using Crostini, it works great too.

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Other Sources
How to install Crostini
How to Install Flathub
Read Outloud Extension to Help
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WiFi fix please

Hi, so this app is perfect for quick documents, coding, etc. I forgot it was an extension after so many years, and now I have no idea what to pick as a replacement when Web Apps drop support.

Crostini Apps take longer to load, are restricted to the Linux File directory and seem to crash.

The Following I tried
* Notepadqq
* Kate

App: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbokpmkimbfghdkjmjhdgbg

What should I do? Thanks

Also for context, this is for a 2015 Macbook Air.

Hi, pretty much what the title says. I can live with it as the OS tends to keep cool enough anyways but was wondering what my options are.

Update: The fan has decided to turn on, it just takes a LOT like it charging to get it to go off.

i have a laptop with intel igpu and nvidi dgpu how do i stop nvidia dgpu from drawing power i am only getting 3 hours battery on 40Wh battery i used to get atleast 4-5 houra on windows

Hi pretty much what the title says, just put chrome os flex on my MacBook Air (2015).

Hello Everyone,

Was gifted an ancient HP laptop (2011). Chucked in 8gb of DDR3 and ChromeOs Flex runs like a dream. Anyone have any tips and tricks to optimize this OS? What are some cool PWAs to download, and would it be worth it to install an SSD (gift from a friend)?

or will it not get updates and complain until i reset it

Maybe I'm missing something, but it's kind of wild that we're in 2026 and auto-rotation is still a gamble on ChromeOS Flex.

On a detachable tablet, auto-rotate is about as basic as volume buttons. Yet here I am rotating the screen manually like it's a feature.

Hello!

I want to enable ChromeOS Flexes Developer mode, but have some problems.

Here is what I did:

- I mounted the efi partiton and added cross_debug to all boot entries in grub.cfg.

- I opened up Google Chrome

- Pressed Ctrl+Alt+T

Then I got:

ERROR: GetAcpiSysfsPath: Failed to get ChromeOS ACPI sysfs path VDAT
ERROR: GetAcpiSysfsPath: Failed to get ChromeOS ACPI sysfs path BINF.3
ERROR: GetAcpiSysfsPath: Failed to get ChromeOS ACPI sysfs path BINF.0

when I type shell I get:

ERROR - ERROR: unknown command shell

Ctrl+Alt+F2 and Ctrl+Alt+right does nothing.

I then found another guide that says I need to be on the developer Channel first. So I redid everything of the above but nothing changed.

The guide also said to add kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=always to grub.cfg, but that was already in there so I guess it's fine?

Thanks ;3

I am trying to put Flex OS on my mac OS (attaching the system info)

I took recovery flex OS, booted it with usb and then a white screen comes with cursor working properly.

I can hear the chrome OS voice assistant.

How to troubleshoot it

I have Lenovo V14 G4 AMD Ryzen 5 7520U 14"

Just got it from like 2 days ago, I'm instructed to install ChromeOS and I've made bootable with chrome recovery utility extension

When I'm booting from boot menu it stays 3-5 mins before falling back to the windows 11.

First I thought it's because of SanDisk Cruze blade pendrive, So I made with another pendrive, same result.

Next I tried in my old dell Inspiron 15 3000, when I booted it worked.

I have updated the latest bios

Disabled secure and fast boot, but still same result, pitch Black screen

Looking to get my issue resolved. Is there any other way we can try?

Necesito desactivar la contraseña de mi cuenta al principio y que entre automáticamente. Lo pude hacer con FydeOS, creando una cuenta local pero el navegador no me gusta. Instale google chrome desde linux pero no me gusto. Alguien podra ayudarme con Chrome OS flex?