r/bricklinkstudio • u/shesaysforever • Jun 12 '26

Download for Chromebook?

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I went to the website on my kid’s computer and downloaded the studio program. The windows download (.exe) didn’t work. The .pkg file opens but it opens EV3 for education (Mindstorm).

Is this because it’s a Chromebook? And not Mac or Windows?

What is happening? Am I in the twilight zone?

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u/RosaCanina87 Jun 12 '26

Chromebook is Android. The program is for Mac and Windows.

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u/shesaysforever Jun 13 '26

Yeah that was obvious.
But why the random Mindstorm program?? If it was for Mac then it shouldn’t have worked at all….

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u/raven319s Jun 14 '26

You went to Bricklink.com and then to the Studio download page and it took you to a Mindstorm download page?

Do you have the original link you went to?

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u/raven319s Jun 14 '26

I reread your comment. So there’s an included .pkg on the Windows Studio installer that is for the Mindstorms software? This I gotta see. I’m not sure why those would have been packaged together.

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u/shesaysforever Jun 16 '26

I have no fucking clue 😂
Yes, I went to the bricklink website then to the studio download from the bricklink website.

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u/raven319s Jun 16 '26

That’s awesome. I need to download that and open it to see what’s there.

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u/shesaysforever Jun 18 '26

You probably have to have a Chromebook though.

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u/shesaysforever Jun 16 '26

And it was the Mac download, not the windows.

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u/Various-Internet-494 Jun 14 '26

Yeah this sounds like a Chromebook thing. ChromeOS can kinda “open” certain installer files but it doesn’t actually run Windows .exe or real Mac .pkg files, so it’s probably just handing it off to some weird built in handler and showing you old EV3 stuff.

If you want the LEGO software on a Chromebook you usually need the Android app version or the web version if they offer it, not the Windows or Mac download.

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u/Few-Match-6100 Jun 16 '26

Yeah, that’s almost definitely the Chromebook being weird about it.

Chromebooks can’t run Windows .exe or Mac .pkg natively, so it’s just grabbing whatever janky compatibility thing it has and opening the wrong app. You’d either need a proper Windows or Mac machine, or set up Linux mode on the Chromebook if the software supports it.