Google remains committed to improving device longevity
Don’t throw away your out-of-date Chromebook just yet as newly found evidence suggests Google may expand the availability of ChromeOS Flex to the old laptops.
This information comes from tech news site Chrome Unboxed after they recently dove into Google’s Chromium Repositories where they stumbled across references for a “Flexor” project. They dug deeper eventually discovering code talking about installing a thirteenth partition to ChromeOS. The reason why the website believes the partition is actually ChromeOS Flex is its file size is 10GB, indicating it’s an entire operating system and “not just some small addition.”
There’s even a note in the repository stating installing the script “inserts a thirteenth partition on disk”. Apparently when installation begins, a message reading “Start flex-ing” will appear on the screen, according to Android Central. Why ChromeOS Flex is important
Now you may be wondering: what even is ChromeOS Flex?
Well, it’s a cloud-based, lightweight version of ChromeOS that can turn old PCs and Macs into a form of Chromebook. This system can run on desktop computers as well as laptops alike.
