As an operating system designed by Google, the Chrome OS is produced on the basis of Linux kernel. The Google Chrome web browser is used as the main user interface in Chrome OS. Announced in July 2009, the Google Chrome OS is mainly used to support and run web applications. All in all, Google Chromebook is not the only way to work on Google OS. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chrome OS on PC, with Play Store support. Chrome OS, derived from the Chromium OS, uses the Chrome browser as the principal user interface. Launched as the default OS for the Chromebook, it created quite a buzz and Windows users were all ut ready to port it onto their PCs.
Do you know that you can install Chrome OS on your computer? The process of installing Chrome OS on PC is quite straightforward and simple. In this article, we will talk about several Chromium OS-based operating system available on the Internet and how you can install any Chrome OS on your standard computer or laptop.
Have you seen a Chromebook running on Chrome OS, it's simple, and browser focused. If you're a person who mainly works on the internet and doesn't need Microsoft OS or MAC OS but a simple operating system that cut all the crap and let you surf the Internet and get things done. The Chrome OS is slowly rising, and it's just perfect for Bloggers, writers, editors, etc.
Windows 10 has gone too far for some people, and Google offered them this operating system which is perfect and works out of the box. Hopefully, the internet is full of computer operating systems, Android operating system for computer and even tweaked Linux systems. Maybe I should tell you that Remix OS is also there based on Android that is fully optimized to run on computers.
A little tip: However, Chrome OS and Chromium OS are similar, but there is something I must tell you, the Chrome OS is something that only comes with official Google certified Chromebooks and the Chromium OS is free to download and be compiled from source code. It means Chrome OS is based on Chromium OS with better feature support. In this guide 'Chrome OS' and 'Chromium OS' are referred the same.
What do you needArticle Contents
- Chrome OS First Impressions.
- Chrome OS image file.
- A media creator tool.
- A USB Drive (8GB or +)
- Wifi-adapter (if it's not built-in)
Creating Bootable USB Drive.
In order to install Chrome OS on your PC, you must get a 'Chrome OS' image file from the internet. There are a few providers that offering Customized and compiled Chrome OS (image) that you can flash into USB drive and simply boot from it.
How to download battle net app. Step 1. Grab a compiled chrome os: we tested this compiled Chrome OS image (64-bit) you've to download an image according to your computer architecture. You can use an Internet download manager to download it, once downloaded extract the zip file using 7Zip or WinRar and save it to any place you can easily find it later.
Step 2. Download a media creation tool:, we've used Win32 Image Writer, choose the 'Image file' that you earlier downloaded and click on 'Write' button and wait for a couple of minutes. The extracted file size is about 7+GB, so it will take some time to write it on USB Drive in case you're using a USB 2.0. Otherwise, USB 3.0 will do the job more quickly.
// You will notice that the USB Drive become inaccessible and Windows 10 may prompt you to format it, don't do that.
Booting into Chrome OS on PC.
- Turn off your computer (disable fast startup to access hard drive access when using Chrome OS).
- Start your computer while USB drive plugged in and press a boot device selection button, on my HP laptop I can access boot devices selection menu by pressing F9 key. You must select 'External USB drive' from the boot device menu.
- If things go right, you'll find a couple of menu items to choose from, Select 'Image 1' and press enter key. Local Image A. B can be used as 2 instances of Chrome OS. The Verified images ensure some capabilities and features. I'm quite unsure about the alternate USB boot option, guess if the options fail to load the Chrome OS that's the option you can try (I did check, and it booted me to the saved session of Image A).
- Within Few minutes, the Chrome OS will load and ask to connect to a Wi-Fi network. Remember you can't get past without an Internet connection, Chrome OS is likely unusable without an active Internet connection. But fortunately, after setting it for the first time, You can use some offline application without the need for active Internet connection.
- You need to use your Google account password when you boot again to it. Alternatively, you can always add other users.
Chrome OS First Impressions.
This is a brief review of the Chrome OS installed on my HP laptop with 4GB RAM and Intel i3 Processor.
After the quick essential setup, the Chrome OS will launch, Clicking on the round-start-icon let you type anything to search or open apps.
You see the transparent taskbar with a bunch of icons on the right side, clicking on them you can switch/toggle WiFi networks and control volume. You Also find the sleep and turn off button there, and you need to enable the Accessibility options to show here manually. Sadly, I couldn't find an option to change Screen brightness (Also, Ctrl+Alt+Brightness-up/down Didn't work for me, it opened the Developer terminal).
Update: To change brightness the F6 and F7 key worked for me.
This compiled Chrome OS was based on Chromium R58, and I installed the 64-bit version. You can also download its 32-bit and ARM variant.
Of course, it is mostly about Chrome Browser (Chromium Browser) so that it supports online apps and extensions available on the Chrome Web Store. The Chrome store is not very lonely, in fact, you will get almost all the best applications you'were using on a Windows machine e.g. Team-viewer, Google Docs. However Google Voice API doesn't seem to work on this build we tested, and that's a real bummer if you like to dictate (type using your voice) and search using your voice.
Where it is good
Chrome OS brilliant and works great on a cheap laptop or Desktop computer. Since it is mainly based on the Chromium Browser you can, of course, you can install from thousands of the Apps and Extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The File Manager comes with all sort of necessary tool including image, video viewer and does all sort of tasks.
The File Manager comes with all kind of essential tool including image, video viewer and does all sort of tasks. It's pretty similar to what we see on other operating systems, on the left sidebar you've shortcuts to other Hard Drives and removable storage. In order to access your hard drive, you must have disabled the 'fast startup' option in Windows 'what power button will do' settings.
You don't have to consume GB's of bandwidth, thanks to the compressed image file that is only 465MB (R58/64-bit), Despite the fact that it's not a lightweight operating system the uncompressed image file size is around 7+GB.
Chrome OS support multiple users, and it's convenient to let other use your computer, after all, its a simple operating system that does save preference to your Google account and sync them if you log-in again with that Google account.
Where it falls short
We're not going to talk about the stupid logic here, and Chrome OS is built for the Web users, it's fast and delivers a good result. When I used it for a whole day, I didn't miss Windows 10 because what I do on Windows + Chrome Browser is just the same.
But I faced that there is no Bluetooth support so you can't add a Bluetooth headphone or printer. Perhaps, wireless Mouse/keyboard should work, because that uses a receiver to transmit singles.
Chrome OS is a great way to move to something else and something completely different from Windows operating system. There are a few another look-alike operating system, one such is CubLinux, which is based on Ubuntu but gives a familiar interface (despite the fact it's discontinued now, if your preference is less resource hungry OS, you can check fast operating systems to skyrocket any older computer.
Google builds Chrome OS (proprietary) for its Chromebook devices, which are based on Chromium OS an open-source project to build an operating system. For sure you can not get the same functionality, a Chromebook provides. But you can install a very similar and identical operating system which gives you an interface like Chrome OS and does functions like Chrome OS.
Alternative operating systems for a computer can be handy if you want to switch from traditional operating systems such as Windows or OSX. There are tons of operating system that you could run on your computer, some of them are specified as fast operating systems for your PC. Google's Chrome OS is for Chromebooks and Chromium OS is a Project that let's developer build a custom operating system for your computer. Google's doesn't offer Chrome OS official installer for other computer expect Chromebooks. Chromium operating system officially comes with the Chromebooks, so to experience a full Chromium OS you might need to buy a Chromebook. But if you just want to test it out there are several methods to do so. In this post, we'll show several ways to install Chromium OS on your Computer (that is not a Chromebook).
Note: In this guide and instruction ‘Chrome OS', Chromium OS and CluLinux all terms are same almost.
How to install Chrome OS on a PC?
In this guide, you are going to learn that how you can install Chromium operating system on you laptop or computer. For that, you just need an unlimited internet connection, as Chromium OS is built specifically for people who do most of their work online.
Download an Unofficial CHROMIUM OS Build.
How To Install Google Chrome Os On My Laptop Computer
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How To Install Google Chrome Os On My Laptop Computer
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There are several unofficial installer/ISO/IMG provider of Chromium OS. Below are top 3 options to consider when you want to experience an operating system like Chrome OS.
Club Linux : Based on linux (Identical to Chrome OS)
(previously Chromixium OS) Is the perfect combination of Chromium OS and Linux, while the build is unofficial. Still, you can taste Chrome OS on your computer by installing the CubLinux build. It is based on Linux and is very light white, the setup is around 1 GB. And you can even make a persistence USB to load and save cub Linux operating system.
Download CubLinux according to your computer's architecture, is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. One easy way to install this opeInstall this operating system using a bootable USB here is how to create a bootable Chrome OS USB.
Download Rufus here: https://rufus.akeo.ie/ and install it.
Rufus quickly creates standard (MBR/BIOS) as well as UEFI (and Secure Boot) compatible USB boot sticks.
Creating a Bootable USB For CubLinux
+ Plug USB stick into a PC
+ Open This PC and note the drive letter.
+ Open Rufus USB creator tool with administrative privileges.
+ Choose the USB drive's latter.
+ Choose either 'MBR Partition Scheme for BIOS or UEFI' for a standard BIOS or change to 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI' if you explicitly want EFI/Secure Boot support.
+ Click on the small disk icon about half way down on the right and select the Chromixium-1.5RC5-amd64.iso image.
+ Make sure to check Quick Format and Click Start.
How To Install Google Chrome Os On Laptop
Turn off your computer and start with USB plugged, according to computer's BIOS configuration choose a boot device, my HP's boot device setting is accessible by pressing ESC when windows start.
Once you find the boot from external media option, choose the option you will see some options like open the OS without installing from USB and installing it on the hard drive. I advice first try the operating system without installing on your computer, it will take some time to load. Soon you will see the logo, and you can start using the Chrome OS.
There are a few things that you need to know if you internet connection is LAN this won;t be any problem, but Linux based Modem or Datacard may not be supported, ao you must rely on connecting your Pc to a WiFi hotspot.
Other Unofficial Chromium OS Projects.
These are unofficial Chromium operating system images; you need to burn them to a USB or DVD. Restart your computer and when asked choose the USB drive to boot. How to insert a screenshot into excel. Follow all the instruction given by the Chromium OS setup.
- Cloud Ready.
CloudReady is is much like an original Chrome OS, It is around 5 GB operating system when uncompressed.
Over to you.
Google has an interesting thing to do with the Chromium OS; rumors say that in early 2017, Google is going to merge Chromium OS with Android – That'll be a kind of freezing awesome cocktail. Update: Google already started merging Android in some Chromebooks.
