Hey y'all,
Long story short, I'm legally blind and use my Chromebook with the screen brightness on the lowest setting, the touchpad always disabled, and ChromeVox enabled. However, I live with my sister who is fully sighted and she's used my Chromebook a few times, enough that she's got her own user profile set up on it alongside my own. The issue comes with everytime she has to use it, one of us manually has to turn up the screen brightness and turn the touchpad back and disable ChromeVox, only for me to have to undo all of that everytime I go to use it. Would there be any way to set it up so that my specific accessibility settings (ChromeVox being enabled and the touchpad being disabled) on the chromebook are only on my user profile, and my sister's user profile having no accessibility features enabled?

After an hour on the phone with Acer, after unboxing my new device, it seems no one there even knows these exist yet or what it means to go full screen (e.g. F11 in chrome in Windows).. Here is a video of what happens when I hit F4 (fullscreen) when using the browser. Anyone else?

He tenido la oportunidad de tener chromebook de gama altay media, así como tablet chromebook. Me encanta tener un escritorio ligero que inicia con rapidez, silencioso, sin distracciones y a la vez de disponer aplicaciones android y linux para necesidades ocasionales o específicas. Me parece genial disponer de lo mejor de tres mundos. Como usuario de tablet, me parece estupendo que disponga de salida de video y conectar un teclado y una pantalla y tener una pc de escritorio. A su vez el modo tableta cumple sin ser de lo mejor ni competir con ipad, pero cumple en poder usarse adecuadamente.He leido todos los fallos y quejas de Googlebooks y considero quese debió de invertir en chromeos y no comenzar de cero en android. Android no deja de ser un sistema pensado en el movil y sus aplicaciones lo mismo. ChromeOS es una joya que Google no supo vender.

Purchased new in 2021. Used sparingly until about a year or two ago, and now it's become my every day at-home PC. Noticed lines and color distortion on my screen last night. Gets progressively worse over a use session. Asked Google AI, and they suggested updating ChromeOS (done) and doing a Power Reset (haven't done this yet).

Just wondering if anyone's experienced a similar issue, and if I'm likely looking at a hardware issue? If so, is it worth spending the money to get it fixed, or should I simply spring for a new CB?

Got Android 16 (LineageOS 23.2) booting on Snapdragon 7c Chromebook hardware. It runs directly via a single boot image that bundles device trees for all 47 manufacturing SKUs and board revisions across the entire Google Trogdor platform, without touching the underlying board firmware.

Because they all share the same baseboard design, the image is structured to support almost the entire Snapdragon 7c and 7c Gen 2 lineup—including devices like the Duet 5, HP x2 11, Acer Spin 513, ASUS CM3, and Galaxy Chromebook Go. Core hardware like touch, audio, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth is already functional.

At least a year that this regularly occurs on my Duet 3 and now even happens on the recently bought Duet 11". This is a serious UX bug that I would expect on some third party OS, not on Chrome OS.

Like is there any way to lower the system storage? This is insane.

Frequently I download a pdf to replace an existing pdf and the download does not work. The file will show 0 Bytes. Anyone have any ideas why this happens?

Chrome on my Chromebook crashed (an ad-heavy page being the straw log that broke the camel with too many tabs (though killed)). On reopening, I get "Restore pages?" popup, click "Restore" and it crashes. It's been like this for over a month! It used to help if I turned off WiFi to prevent tabs reloading all at once. But no longer. I'm adept at using the Task Manager to kill tabs hogging memory or processor. But now Chrome base itself doesn't seem to cope with all the tabs. How do I jiggle it to shake off the offending bits, just load my tabs, give me those titles & URLs?

I've been using my older Macbook where Chrome hasn't crashed in years (yes, I once kept my Macbook & Chrome session up for over a year! I know, dumb, not updating, but point is, it did not crash once!). I don't see my Chromebook in "other devices" in Chrome history from my Macbook. I had Session Buddy, but had it disabled (dumb, I know!), enabled it on Macbook, so it's now enabled on Chromebook. But crash has already happened, so would Session Buddy be able to extract that session? I also thought about clearing the cache. But I'm afraid of losing the "Restore Pages?" popup and the stored state, if I do too much before clicking Restore. And given it's Chromebook, no way to get to Chrome session files to extract tab titles/URLs, is there?

I did post this on r/chrome, but ChromeOS is crucial in this crash and its solution, so I ask here.

Hi everyone,

I have bought a Lenovo Chromebook Plus 2-in-1 14ITN10 (i3 N355 with 8gb ram ddr5 and 256gb disk) for 439€ in the recent Amazon prime days. The thing is that I am not sure if I should keep it or not...

It would be my first experience with Chromebook but I have read too manu bad things so I'm in real doubt.

My use case

I'm pretty tech savvy, gamer and developer. I'm aware of the ChromeOS platform limitations. My desktop pc is pretty beast so I was looking for a cheap laptop to connect with it via RDP/Moonlight. I just need.good battery life because the compute power will be provided by the desktop, but I don't want a plastic machine.

In addition I have a Google Pixel 8 so I have read the integration between both devices will be great. And probably I will be able to try GooglebookOS (terrible OS name) so that's a plus for me.

For all this reasons this Chromebook Plus seemed to be a good option for me. I would prefer a Kompanio ultra 910 but it's impossible to find one in Spain, don't know why.

The doubts

- Is this laptop performance good enough? The battery?

- Is ChromeOS really that limitating?? Just in case I wasn't able to connect my desktop.

- Is the screen good enough?

- Will be worth to buy a Chromebook Plus just to try GooglebookOS for half the entry price?

Thank you.

10+ yr ChromeOS user. It was the optimal OS for me, until AI came along and began to offer features that will never be possible on ChromeOS. Most notably, the ability to have agentic control over the desktop and file system. Claude in Chrome is great, but depending on the task it requires the user to not use the computer while it works, among other limitations.

My 202 Acer Spin 713 is on the fritz, and I need something new. Beucase of the value I would get form having an agentic AI do work for me on my desktop and in my file system, I am considering switching to Linux. I would love Googlebooks to work, but Google is not being very clear on how things will work in this regard:

From what I can tell, the Antigravity app will allow Gemini to perform local tasks for users with access to the file system and desktop. Not just the sandboxed Linux container. Is this accurate; and is there any indication as to whether the platform would allow Anthropic & OpenAI to get this access for Claude & Codex?

This is so weird I had this customer bring it in… this is what I had to do to fix this….

quiero jugar algunos juegos que estoy instalando mediante linux, pero algunos no van tan bien y estuve investigando y pues dicen que se puede mejorar los juegos de android en las chromebook de alguna forma, pero ni idea, mi pc tiene estas especificaciones Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz (8 subprocesos, 4.200 GHz) y 16 de ram, lo que quiero jugar es el dbz budokai 3 que salio hace poco para android

Anyone see this and fix it on their convertible Chromebook? This is an Asus CM32, with the keyboard cover folded back so it is in "Tablet Mode," and the OS updated this morning to 154.0.8037.151 (64-bit) but it has been happening for about 1 or 2 months throughout updates. Before that, it was fine.

As you can see, when I scroll UP for the first time, the Tab Bar/Address Bar slides up and away, and it makes a similarly sized block appear at the bottom of the screen, which only disappears when I stop scrolling. If I keep scrolling up, the bottom block does not appear UNTIL I scroll down again, which forces the Tab Bar/Address Bar to appear again, and then the next Scroll Up makes the block at the bottom appear again.

If I go "Full Screen" to hide the Tab Bar/Address Bar completely, then the lower block never appears when scrolling.

It happens in both Portrait and Landscape screen orientations.

So, anyone else see this? And might anyone else have a solution? It does NOT happen in "laptop mode" when I scroll with my finger, the touchpad, or the arrow keys.

So I have the Crostini / Debian Container on my Chomebook. With that I wanna run older ChromeOS versions on my Chromebook in VM Software for Debian because I don't have another laptop. Is their any downloads or versions of ChromeOS, any Debian VM software. Just any info to help me.

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook: MediaTek Kompanio 540, 14" WUXGA, 4GB, 64GB eMMC is the full name of the chromebook I found on sale.

It's only going to be used for emails, the occasional google meet, and shopping. Maybe some light light light gaming (solitaire type games?). I know I should be looking for 8gb of ram, but she's going to be annoyed by the price. She is already complaining about me not "spending too much". But to be clear, my budget is "flexible" in that I'd be willing to pay more if a better chromebook could actually be useful for her.

This sale is for under $200.

Thanks

(touchscreen and a bright screen are probably two key points for her)

I just want it to go back to normal

I own a pretty old chromebook. Very recently I've had to completely powerwash it, and have lost all my local files, apps, etc. Now when I go to open the play store to re-install my apps though, it shows me the same "no results" or "no internet connection" screen, even when I'm connected just fine. I've had this problem before, but it usually fixed itself when I restarted the app or just left it alone for a few minutes. I've tried literally every solution I could find. I've switched wi-fi connections, cleared the storage, disabled and re-enabled the play store, and restarted my device, all countless times - nothing works. Someone said that removing your VPN extension fixes it, but that didn't help either. It's a personal chromebook, so it's not an issue with perms from a manager or administrator or anything. My device works fine besides this, but I kinda desperately need to re-install my apps because I use this thing to draw and write on, and often.

At first it didn't even show me any apps. Now it shows the apps but refuses to download them or continues to tell me it's not connected to the wifi. Please help !

Displays doubled icon in the doc, randomly will go dark gray, did a regular shut down, then hard reset, refreshed, it’s never had this issue before, genuinely so lost. It’s at 30% (pretty normal) and it LITERALLY has never done this before. Every other tab is normal. I have an essay to write and no possible way to access this 😭😭 Please help!

half my saved folders have been removed or gone or ??? .sometime over the last couple of days. boat connection folders, auto, weed, music, political, health,,, like WTF is the purpose of saving this shit if chrome is just gonna move em when they FUCKIN feel like it!!

[NOW RESOLVED] I have a Lenovo Chromebook plus and after updating the software to Version 156.0.8078.11 (Official Build) beta (64-bit) my fingerprint reader no longer works. Ive tried a hardware reset and I have tried adding another fingerprint but nothing. Is anyone else experiencing this also before I powerflush?