GNU/Linux Preinstalled: Options and 'Chromebooks'
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Hardware
If you want a 100% repairable laptop, you can buy one from Framework, and build it yourself. It is mostly compatible with free software, and soon they are going to switch to coreboot.
If you want a corebooted Linux laptop, you can buy one from System76, Purism, Novacustom or Starlabs. [...]
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Google is done making its own Chromebooks
In short, it sure feels like Google’s Chrome OS and Chrome hardware teams aren’t on the same page. And if The Verge’s report is accurate, the latter doesn’t really exist anymore. The former isn’t doing so hot, either: after a phenomenal sales boom during the pandemic, global Chromebook shipments dropped by more than 60 percent in the first quarter of 2022. Previously outselling Mac hardware and posing a serious threat to Windows in the budget segment, Chrome OS powered just 6 percent of new laptops sold in the same period.
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Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it
Google has canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop and dissolved the team responsible for building it. The device was far along in development and expected to debut next year, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the project was cut as part of recent cost-cutting measures inside of Google. Members of the team have been transferred elsewhere inside the company.