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by pentagrama·2y ago·view on hn ↗
That looks nice. I like the Material You look and feel and UX. I want to try it.

Can I install Chrome OS as simply as I installed Ubuntu? With a USB drive and a friendly install process (on a separated partition on my SSD, my main OS is Windows 11 now).

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Yes. The chromeOS Flex installer image can be written to a USB drive and then booted from your usual computer.

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529

You can unzip this archive and write the unpacked BIN to a USB flash drive using `dd` like you would for Ubuntu. You can also just follow the Google instructions.

https://dl.google.com/chromeos-flex/images/latest.bin.zip

Great! Will try that since I see is an official documentation.

I assume yes, but do you know if it is mandatory to have to login to the OS with a Google account? Or can be used with a local/offline account? I prefer the later.

Yes, it's necessary to have a Google account for the typical case.

You can login as a guest, but the data created in that session isn't saved – it's "ephemeral."