![]() Which brings me to some obscure browser history. Google is designing its own Arm-based processors for 2023 Chromebooks – report.The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs.Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC.Sadly we'll never know, because the OS is so disappointingly browser-based. ![]() Zwift, the cycling metaverse I employ and enjoy for early morning exercise, is available on Android and I quite fancied using the MacBook as a backup machine for that, and as a test of ChromeOS Flex's ability to do things like handle multiple simultaneous Bluetooth connections while running a graphics-intense application. Other Chromebooks can, so this is a significant omission. One thing ChromeOS Flex can't do is run Android apps. Adding my second Google account, one tied to The Reg, took more effort than I wanted. ChromeOS Flex treats whichever Google account you tie to the OS as the boss of the machine. In Windows or macOS, Chrome is good at allowing tabs to be logged into different Workspaces accounts. Signing in to ChromeOS Flex therefore gave me a very familiar experience – and some frustrations. Here at The Register we also use Workspaces. I'm one of those people using Google's legacy (free) version of the Workspaces cloudy productivity suite. If you've used a Chromebook you know the drill: Google offers a few apps, but expects you'll do almost everything in its Chrome browser. Setup was slick and simple – once I fed the machine my Google credentials and a Wi-Fi password it just started working. An hour later, the MacBook had become a ChromeOS FlexBook – after a few jittery moments when the install process displayed white noise on the machine's screen.
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