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is your laptop or desktop pc starting to
feel sluggish
is it nearing the end of its useful life
hi everyone kevin here today i want to
show you how you can install chrome os
flex on your old pc
and hopefully by doing this you can give
your laptop or desktop a new life
google just recently released chrome os
flex and it's completely free to install
but first what is chrome os flex
google offers something called chrome os
and this is the operating system that
you get when you purchase a chromebook
it's a linux based operating system and
it uses a web browser as its main user
interface
most of the applications are web-based
meaning that it works really well on
older computers
chrome os flex uses the same underlying
technology as chrome os
it's just that flex is intended for
conventional pcs that in the past ran
windows mac or linux
there are a few key differences for one
you can't install the play store and you
also can't install android apps but
aside from that it's a pretty similar
experience
now that we know what flex is how do you
actually get it
and the neat thing about getting flex is
you could just test it out you don't
have to make it your main operating
system but if you decide you like it and
you think it performs a lot better you
could install it as your main os on your
computer
but before we jump into that we should
have a quick look at the minimum system
requirements
compared to windows 11 this is a
relatively low bar
basically if you bought your pc in the
last 12 years flex should work
you'll also need a usb stick or an sd
card and they should have at least eight
gigabytes of space to install flex first
we need to create a usb installer
to do that open up your chrome web
browser and then navigate to the chrome
web store
within the store search for the
chromebook recovery utility
or just to make your life easier you can
click on the link right up above on this
page click on add to chrome and then
click on add extension
within chrome now when you click on the
extension icon you'll see a new
extension for the chromebook recovery
utility click on that and then click on
get started click on select a model from
the list
under manufacturer select the option
that says google chrome os flex
and under the model select chrome os
flex click on continue
on the next screen we have to choose
where we want to place the installation
media i'm going to select my usb stick
next click on continue and then select
create now as a quick aside at the very
end once you've installed flex if you
decide you want to use your usb stick or
your sd card again you'll have to remove
the insulation media and it's pretty
easy to do that you simply open up the
recovery utility again and there's a
gear in the top right hand corner click
on that and then you can erase the
installation media once again only
something you would want to do at the
end if you want to use this again for
something else now that we've created
the usb installer we need to boot from
it to do this simply restart your
computer and then immediately start
pressing the boot menu key
i happen to have a dell so i'm going to
press the f12 key
but if your computer is from a different
pc manufacturer you may need to press a
different key this opens up the boot
menu and here you simply want to select
the drive where you place the insulation
media so look for things like your usb
stick or an sd card i'll select my sd
card
and here i see the chrome logo
and now i have two different options
i can test it out
this won't at all affect any of the
files that are on my hard drive it's
purely a way for me to evaluate what i
think of flex
if i restart my computer it'll land me
back into the operating system that i
already had
with the second option i can install
flex as my new operating system and this
will wipe out everything on my hard
drive and when i boot up my computer in
the future this will now be my new os if
you decide that you like flex this is
the preferred option
the reason why is you get performance
improvements and you'll also get ongoing
updates in the future
and check that out i now have chrome os
flex installed on my computer and i
didn't even have to buy a chromebook
once again this is a fantastic way to
make an old computer new again
let me know down below in the comments
what do you think of chrome os flex will
you consider installing this on your old
computers
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