
Giving New Life to a Chromebook
I am the new owner of a hand-me-down Chromebook that to me, now has a new reason to exist. No longer is it tied to Google and their tracking and ads policies. Rather it is its own system now, complete with Arch Linux/EndeavourOS on i3-wm.
I first purchased this laptop for my oldest child who required something for online school during the Covids and I landed on the Lenovo S340-14. Inside it has a Celeron N4000 dual core/dual hyperthread CPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 14 inch TN screen at 1920x1080 and 220 nits. It worked fine for her during that time but now that its basically a paperweight now that she has my System76 i7 Dart Pro gen 1 laptop ((I need to make a review on about it one day) which was before they stared using coreboot and is 15.6" rather than either 14" or 16" they have now, but that is a story for another day).