Hey you and welcome I'm Mr. Berry and in this whole video I want to talk about installing the chrome
os right onto your windows based laptop or even into your old macbook now i did make a video about
this a number of years ago and the link will be up there basically what we did back then was we would
go to neverwhere.com and from there you click on download neverwhere you would download onto a
jump drive and then you would boot up your computer from the jump drive
from there you would given two options one you can actually run the chrome os right off the jump
drive or you can actually format and install the chrome os onto your windows or macintosh machine
basically removing windows or mac and replacing it with the chrome os
well a few things have changed since then basically back in december of 2020 google
actually acquired neverwhere and you may ask why didn't i make a video on that day well
because google when they acquired it they didn't make any changes they basically kept it the same
there were some minor updates to the operating system but everything ran smoothly as before
things are still running smoothly by the way but there are now changes and it looks more like the
real chrome os that you actually run on a chromebook or a chromebox
so that's why the update of the video today so let's take a look at this you and i come on
hey here we are in the chrome os flex version now the main difference that you have between the
older neverwhere's version of the chrome os and the actual google chrome os flex version is that
down at that bottom there you actually have the app launcher and the app launcher looks acts just
like the real one on a chromebook so instead of being having everything like highlighted in
blue and some there's some other minor changes in the design it looks and behaves the same way
so if you look at the bottom there you notice the app launcher is over there on the corner
and then towards the middle we have the shelf and the apps that are basically pinned onto the shelf
and so we have the chromo the chrome browser and then a few of the others there now um if
you click on any of those they work just like you would expect in a chromebook which is really nice
and what we're going to do is actually go in and show you uh from the link that i have provided
in the description of how everything works so notice right here it says click here to
get the chrome os flex version so you click there and next in the moment or two you get this page
again it basically says the same thing with a little bit more information so
if you actually to scroll down on this page you would actually see some more information such as
some of the features let me speak about some of those now chrome os is very secure in fact it's
probably the most secure operating system that you can ever run on a computer and the chrome os flex
carries that along so if you're looking for security and we know we all are boom the chrome os
flex has you covered there the other thing that you will notice is that you have the the chrome
web store that is supported and so extensions or apps that you'd actually be running in the
chrome os they run perfectly fine and there's no problem there as well so
those are two really good features that have been carried over to this operating system the other
thing that you can do too is if you're part of a larger company you can control or actually manage
the devices within your enterprise or your company so that there'll be one admin and you can either
enable or disable features from one location in one place there all right so let's go ahead and
just click on try there where it says try chrome os flex and now it comes up to here it says try
an early version of chrome os flex for free now if you remember from the previous videos i made about
neverwhere and that operating system it's 100 free and again we're finding the chrome os flex
is also free which is a good thing the major change is this right here some people may not
like it maybe actually be turned off by the fact that they have to put in
a name an address even a phone number there and all that information that you provide there some
things that might hang up people would be it says company and then company size well you can make
up a company and as far as company size you can say well it's just one person so there you go and
once you've answered all those questions notice at the very bottom there you have a blue button there
and you can actually click there and what happens at that point is you'll have to have
your jump drive handy now your flash drive or your jump drive whatever you want to call it
needs to be ready and you'll put that into your computer plug that in and then have the
basically the chrome os flex version download onto this what's going to happen is it will format so
if there's any data on this jump drive or usb jump drive there it's gone and it will be replaced with
the actual chrome os flex the nice thing about this that's what's created is called a bootable
device so um a bootable device is basically a device that can boot up your computer system
and what you do is after it downloads and we'll format and then download the operating system
onto your jump drive from there basically turn on your computer plug this in right away
and if you need to you need to change your settings on your laptop so that it actually
boots up from the jump drive and there's a few ways to do that right when you could be if you
have a dell computer or most other computers you can press f11 or f12 it comes up and it asks you
which device do you want boot up from well guess what you just wanna boot up from the usb device
and away you go it'll allow you the option to either run it from the jump drive or to install
the chrome os flex right on to the machine and overriding the old windows or macintosh
operating system that you had there by the way i do have instructions on that depending on what
kind of computer you have whether it's a mac or a windows laptop and those steps are again
are over there on the previous videos don't really need to to repeat those steps because
those steps are up there and it's fairly easy to go to now let's look at some of the things now
as far as what does chrome os flex lac what is it missing and this is a biggie
now um i was really really hoping that the chrome os would have this one feature many of
my subscribers have been they've been messaging me and saying hey does it have it yet doesn't have it
yet and the answer is no it does not have the play store now the android play store is like crucial
or central in many of the things that we do inside of a chromebook and you're going you've got to
be kidding me it doesn't have the play store from android and as of today which is february 2022 it
does not carry the play store now does that mean that it will never have it well not exactly it may
carry it in the future so hopefully it will thing is you can actually if you have an older laptop
you want to give it new life this is an excellent way to basically give new life to an older
laptop or an older macbook another question that comes up often on my my comments there in my
videos is well can you actually install this onto an older chromebook and then update it to a newer
newer version of the chrome os and the answer is uh no not we're not looking at that this
is for an older windows machine or an older macintosh machine all right uh if you want
to go ahead and do that to your chromebook you'd have to actually change some things
in the machine itself so that you would actually be able to boot up from a jump drive and actually
installed install an operating system there which is a little bit different
than what you normally do on a chromebook all right so we now know some of the features it
has great security it runs and does things from the chrome web store so it does run the
extensions and the apps that you find there and then uh some of the things to know installing
it's very easy to install just have to answer those questions that we talked about earlier
and then click on try chrome os flex you'll put it onto a trump drive the thing it lacks is the
play store ouch and that is a big ouch because we really do like having that
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