Turning a Windows 10 PC into a Chromebook

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Installing ChromeOS Flex or FydeOS on a Windows 10 computer, which gives it the functionality of a Google Chromebook. And, as shown in the video, this can include the ability to run local Linux applications. ChromeOS Flex is available here: http://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/ FydeOS is available here: https://fydeos.io/ The Rufus utility that I used to write the ChromeOS Flex and FydeOS image files to a USB drive is available here: https://rufus.ie/en/ And the Webcam Test website is here: https://webcamtests.com/ The previous video in which I detail how to install Linux applications in ChromeOS Flex (and it works just the same in FydeOS) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsWgzH3OzYY And you can find all of my videos on alternative operating systems here: https://explainingcomputers.com/alternative_os_videos.html BOOTING FROM A USB DRIVE Exactly how you boot from a USB drive does I’m afraid depend on your particular computer. Often a boot menu can be accessed by pressing a particular key when you power-on, which may be F12, F11, F10 or Esc. And if you can bring up such a menu, you can simply select the USB drive. Alternatively, you can enter the BIOS/UEFI, again by pressing an appropriate key, which is commonly F2, Del or Esc. Once in the BIOS you can hopefully find a setting that will change the boot order to have USB first, so that your computer will always first try to boot from an inserted USB drive. However, to work, this may also require you to

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