Learn how to install ChromeOS Flex on an old Windows laptop, create a bootable USB drive, test hardware, and avoid losing files.

No computer lasts forever. No matter how well you take care of it, eventually that fancy laptop you bought six years ago will slow down — in some cases, to the point that it becomes totally unusable.

Flex and Bison are Unix utilities that can help you to write very fast parsers for arbitrary file formats. If your synaptic package manager currently does not include these packages, you can install ...

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ChromeOS Flex is a free cloud-based distribution of Google's operating system intended to make it easy to turn your existing laptop into a Chromebook. It integrates Google products natively, provides ...

You can use an ageing laptop until it's completely exhausted, but by that point it's unlikely to be receiving security updates, and will be vulnerable to viruses. This is particularly important for ...