From hating to developing: My journey with Chromebooks

I used to avoid Chromebooks, I thought I had no use for them. That is, until a couple years ago, when I managed to put windows on a Chromebook..

From then on, I have:

• Helped organizations get more use out of their Chromebooks with Windows and Linux

• Through a start-up I work for, Fyra Labs, and with the partnership of the Chrultrabook Project, we have created a tool to make it easier than ever to boot Linux onto a stock firmware Chromebook, and are implementing it into Chromebook images for our distro

• Worked with PostmarketOS to port to mt8192/google-hayato

• Connected with other Linux distributions in regard to bringing Chromebook support to as many distros as possible

• Become the first person to boot an OSTree-based Linux image onto a stock Chromebook, seen here

In this session, we will discuss:

• My journey with Chromebooks over the years, from how I got started to the topics above
• Live demonstration of our tool used to boot Linux on Chromebooks
• Demos of custom ROM (corebooted) Windows and Linux Chromebooks, and custom ARM and OSTree-based installs
• 'Interesting' (to say the least) ways to use modded ChromeOS devices (Pi-Hole, drawing tablet..)
• How you can get involved
• Different ways to view non-standard hardware

While this may seem like a more technical session, I aim to make a simple, easy to understand session for people of all technical knowledge. To help with this, my little brother will be assisting me with live demos.

• Development
• Hardware
• Startups