This is very helpful if you’re trying to liberate an old ChromeOS device. His scripts allow you to install a regular BIOS and any OS you want from there.

https://mrchromebox.tech/

I’ve made a small hobby out of fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them away (recently to a local refugee resettlement org) and I’ve been frustrated at how quickly apple and Google kill their OSs. Everything I get that still has a valid, supported commercial OS gets factory reset and updated, because I try to give people something familiar to them. Everything else gets Linux Mint running MATE, which so far seems to be intuitive enough for former windows users.

These laptops have so much more life in them than their OS support would have you believe.