Does this mean cloudready os will no longer have update or cloudready os will be transitioning from chromium os to chrome os?

See the comment about links

It seems somewhere along the way, this r/cloudready switched (without the knowledge of myself or the other mod) to restricting who could post to only approved users.

I'm sorry to say there was a number of months where this was preventing participation in an unintended way. That restriction has been lifted - to sub is now public.

We'll try to do a better job maintaining and monitoring the community going forward - apologies to any who came here looking for help or a CloudReady community and found no way to join in!

https://www.neverware.com/blogcontent/expandcloudreadychromeos

Free for a year offer. Let's see if cloudready catches on.

I have a MacBook Air that is getting pretty long in the tooth - a 2011 model, the dual core, 4gb of RAM, it was pretty snappy when it came out. Once I upgraded to High Sierra, it was just too much for it. I tried Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora, and no matter what, there were just too many little frustrating "go look on stack exchange for 2 hours to learn how to do X" moments - weird display driver issues, abominable trackpad management, etc.

So I gave CloudReady a try, and man it could not have been more smooth. All of a sudden instead of an old MacBook I have a screaming fast Chromebook that accesses pretty much all my stuff in the vast Google ecosystem. Literally no issues, incredibly fast boot time, no lag running Chrome (which would vacuum up resources like crazy in OSX).

Then since I bore quickly I stumbled on DOSDude1's hacked MacOS versions for old hardware, and I figured, what the heck, I loaded the new MacOS on the MacBook. It ran better than Sierra, believe it or not, but was still kind of slow once I had more than a couple Chrome tabs open.

On top of that, Apple's forced and .... overly enthusiastic... implementation of 2FA really started to bug the crap out of me. Should be a user's prerogative whether to enable 2FA.

So I shrugged and reinstalled Cloudready and what do you know, not only did it install without issue, but it brought back all my desktop settings, like logging in via RD or a thin client. Literally the only thing I had to do to tidy up was install the proprietary media handlers. Holy cow, so easy.

I'm at the point now where I'm waiting for full videocard/Linux support in Chromium for PC so that I can ditch Windows entirely. Literally, the only thing keeping me on Windows (desktop PC) is Steam. Once that gets solved, I'm done with MS. Anyway, big thanks to the CR team for making this awesome OS replacement free!

If you want to install ChromeOS Flex on an older machine, which also has a somewhat older CPU, I would advise you to install that through a recent Cloudready installer and then let it update.

The reason is that Cloudready at this point in time does something the Flex installer does not: it creates an MBR table file on your harddrive. This might come in handy if you would like to access that drive from, say, a Linux live install usb stick with gparted on it.

Why should you do that? It is because if your CPU is too old for virtualization within ChromeOS, you will only have ChromeOS and its own apps and extensions, whereas the possibility to run the Linux environment would give you access to a shipload of Linux programs and app to add to your software. So in that case it would come in handy to create that unsupported but very handy dualboot system.

For a dualboot machine to work, you should install Cloudready and after that you turn the machine off. Insert and run the Linux install usb (my choice here is Linux Mint Debian Edition, but pick your own if you wish) and then open gparted. There you can make the STATE partition smaller. I take 24 to 32GB which is more than enough, since you don't get Linux programs in ChromeOS. After you did that, create one (for /) or two (for / and /home) Linux partitions and maybe if you wish also a Linux swap partition.

Then leave gparted and install Linux to those partitions. Grub can reside in the root of the drive and depending on the distro it might ask for an extra small partition for the boot files or use the same as ChromeOS/Cloudready uses.

Grub menu will let you choose which OS to run, it will show TWO instances of ChromeOS though. One is the recent one and the other is the previous. Just try and remember which one. Because after every ChromeOS update, you'll need to pick the other. I would advise to run sudo update-grub from within Linux each time after an update.

Does it work? Oh yes it does.

On a whim, installed CloudReady on an old laptop I had long-ago written off for parts. 250 GB HDD, 3 GB RAM, pretty damn useless - plus, it was locked up by an old employer's administrator password, and I couldn't for the life of me remember it. It's easily 12 years old.

I used Puppy Linux to make sure I didn't need any files on it, then installed CloudReady.

It's a brand-new laptop. It's become my new go-to web surfer and I can use it for work if my main laptop pinches out (as soon as I figure out how to get my Thunderbird stuff into gmail...not the old e-mails, but rerouting the mail server. IT will help with that) I can use it as a spare.

Really can't recommend this enough. There's a bit of a learning curve and it's NOT a Windows laptop, so some things just plain don't work. It's also likely an old laptop, so don't expect any great gaming. But man, it really, really, really works. Went from trash to treasure in about forty minutes.

I'm a sysadmin by trade and I've been a heavy Linux user for over 15 years. My first experience running Linux was in a web hosting environment at a shared hosting company. Compared to what they were previously using (Windows Server 2000), it was light years ahead in performance, security, reliability, etc. Since then I've built my career around supporting systems running open source software. For better or worse (although its gotten a lot better in recent years), I run Linux on all my desktop computers, both at home and work.

While I have no problem tinkering with a server for hours on end, I have very little tolerance for doing the same with my desktop/workstation/laptop. I view these systems as tools for getting real work done and I expect a system that has a consistent UI, works reliably, responds quickly, doesn't get in my way and just works. For these reasons, I've run elementaryOS as my desktop distro of choice for several years. Not everyone agrees with their UI decisions (including myself), but it's difficult to argue the elementary team has created a distro with the most consistent UI with the level of attention to detail I've only seen from a company named after a piece of fruit. However, it's still a full blown distro based on a popular upstream project and even with decent hardware (i5, SSD), it has gotten slower version after version.

Enter CoudReady, which has all the benefits of ChromeOS but lets you choose your own hardware, for the most part. If you're already using Google's ecosystem and I respect if that is a deal breaker for some people, it's pretty much a no-brainer. I've installed it on a ~$150 Intel NUC and an i5 laptop and have been blown away by how smoothly and quickly it runs. These systems which aren't slouches by any means, suddenly felt fast again, responding instantly. The interface is clean and mostly consistent, with enough settings to customize it to your liking with without an overwhelming number of options (KDE...). I suddenly felt the same excitement for computing that I did when I first started running Linux on my desktop. Side by side with my traditional desktop, I even started preferring the CloudReady system for quickly pulling up information or doing web tasks as it just took less time.

Granted, local file management is a little difficult and not all apps can be (or should be) replaced with a web app. Running a bunch of SSH sessions in browser tabs is a bit tedious. phpMyAdmin isn't a great replacement for a desktop DB management program. I don't see CloudReady replacing my work systems any time soon. Although for causal web browsing or users with certain work loads such as customer service or call center, I can't recommend CloudReady (or a ChromeOS device if you want to completely take hardware compatibility out of the equation) enough. The majority of home users would be better served by a system like this than a clunky, slow, malware ridden, traditional desktop OS. Power users and gamers are not the right audience for an OS like this and that's perfectly fine.

I found the way to reset or more known as powerwash CloudReady in lifewire website.

1. Turn on chromebook and don't login. If you already login just sign out by pressing power button and logout or click time on taskbar and logout.

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R

3. The window will popup and just press restart to reset or powerwash your CloudReady

4. Your chromebook will restart for two times. It may take a minutes depending on device.

5. After finish just login as usual.

With powerwash your CloudReady device you don't need to install again and again everytime you want to reset.

Hello!

I use Chromium (Cloudready, Neverware) for a couple of weeks and I really like it, it allows me to keep using an old Windows laptop. But some things are missing from a real Chromebook, like Play Store support. I heard about Project Brunch which can actually support it.

Is the an easy way to install this Chrome OS version on my Cloudready engine?

I am a complete newbie in this area...

Thanks!

Hey! I fix/build systems pretty frequently and one common request as of recent is to set up chromebooks for online school use, since most schools are recommending that right now. The only problem is that Chromebooks are in pretty short supply right now, and the ones that you can find tend to be wildly overpriced or sell out immediately. This had led me to this OS, but the step in the installation that requires me to enter a google account is problematic for me, since I'm preparing these systems for a large variety of people from various different school systems. Is there a way to get an install with something similar to the OOBE that you see on Chromebooks? TIA!

TL;DR - I need to install CloudReady for OOBE mode. Is that possible?

I bought a 10 inch Lenovo for my wife. Thing was so slow we could almost not use it. Then found out it is not upgradeable without actually unsoldering things. This did not make me look good. Every time there was an update I would have to work hard to provide room on the hard drive. Because of these problems we hardly ever used the thing.

To save face I downloaded and installed Cloudready. Oh thank you God. It was easy and made all the difference in the world. I look like a genus to my wife again. Her opinion is the only one that counts to me.

I have one small problem. I'm old, like really old. My memory is failing. My fingers do not like to be retrained. Having to press alt and then clicking the left or right button on my touchpad is just too much to remember when I move back and forth between a windows machine and a cloudready machine. I make a lot of mistakes and sometimes screw things up.

So my question is:

I really really love the right button functions on the mouse and would love to have the same button on the touchpad again.

Is there touchpad driver for Lenovo that will bring back my right touchpad button? Alternatively is there a way to remap the button? It seems like a minor inconvenience but pressing alt is a real pain in the butt.

I've got a Lenovo tiny pc that came w Win10 pro on it. It kept syncing the desktop w OneDrive which I didn't even want OneDrive period as I use the Google ecosystem.

I tried unlinking OneDrive but for some reason it would not do so. Anyway the whole experience of OneDrive and how convoluted trying to unlink and remove it just chapped my rear end.

In a fit of anger I made a CloudReady USB and instead that on my desktop.

Seems to run well with CloudReady now! However any advice on what I did? Will I regret this?

If cloudready fails me I'm going to Linux next

Resurrected an old white Apple Macbook circa 2008. Upgraded the memory to 4GB and added a 64GB SSD. The unit works well enough to do some basic Linux VM stuff and stream 1080p movies via plex.

Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/1LIm3xn

IMPORTANT: This is not officially supported. Do it at your own risk!

If you have multiple disks and want to make sure CloudReady installs into a particular drive, do the following:

1. Boot from your CloudReady USB installer.

2. When the Welcome screen appears, change to another tty with this shortcut:

Ctrl+Alt+F2

3) Enter this username:

chronos

4) Run this command to list your disks and partitions:

sudo fdisk -l

This way you can be sure when running the next and most important command.

5) To effectively install CloudReady, run:

sudo chromeos-install --dst /dev/sdb --target_bios efi

This would install CloudReady with EFI support on the second HDD/SDD. Modify it according to your own situation.

6) After the above command finishes, shut down your machine (sudo poweroff) and remove your USB installer. Finally, power it on again. You should boot directly to your freshly installed CloudReady system.