How To Install Windows 10 On Acer Chromebook 11

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After ditching my HP Stream 11 Windows 10 Laptop for a Lenovo Yoga Windows 10 Laptop due to the very limited amount of Storage space left after the Windows 10 Installer & device drivers, it was virtually impossible to actually use the Laptop while keeping everything up to date.

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Acer C740, Acer C910, Acer CB5-571, Toshiba Chromebook 2 and Dell Chromebook 13, see here:Click Flash Custom Coreboot BIOS. Warning: this BIOS is only for the Acer C720, C720P, HP Chromebook 14, Toshiba CB-30, and Dell Chromebook 11. Mar 03, 2021 To install Windows 10 or 7 on Acer Chromebook Spin 11 you need to mess up with the operating system, firmware, and BIOS. However, These actions can result in some serious effects on your Laptop. Chromebooks are not officially designed for installing Windows Operating system and you can’t install Windows without any modifications in BIOS.

So on the 23rd of December, I decided to search for a way to put Chrome OS on it instead of Windows 10, I came across a YouTube video where someone replaced Windows 10 with Neverware CloudReady.

CloudReady is an easy to install and maintained version of “Chrome OS”, I use the term Chrome OS loosely as CloudReady isn’t based on the official Google Chrome code base as it uses the Opensource Chromium OS code base.

CloudReady really simplifies the use of Chromium OS on none Chrome OS systems, as the last time, I used Chromium OS was between 26th December 2013 and 26th January 2014, and that was using a very very basic version of Chrome OS that sometimes had issues with YouTube as back then YouTube relied heavily on Adobe Flash for videos (I was using a Toshiba Laptop at the time), and not long after my experiment with Chromium OS I got an official Chrome OS Laptop in the form of the Acer C720 Chromebook, which is pretty much the same size as the HP Stream 11 as it too is an 11″ Laptop.

from 27th of January 2014 until I stopped writing regular Articles on the Blog on the 6th of September 2014 all the Articles I wrote was done using the Acer C720 and I even designed the Banner Artwork using PowerPoint Online using it. I’ve got an Article that I keep meaning to write about the Acer C720 Laptop that I need to write before the end of the year otherwise I’ll need to change the title slightly.

CloudReady like Chrome OS and Chromium OS relies heavily on an Internet connection of some form or other to work since it’s Chromium OS at heart, but with the limited offline capability (mainly through Google the Google Docs suite (Docs, Slides & sheets) you can do limited work offline), but like the newer versions of Chrome OS & Chromium OS builds 69 and newer you can install Linux Applications meaning you can install the full Libre Office suite if you so wish giving you a fully featured Office Suite that runs offline.

Linux app support on Chrome OS & Chromium OS is still in Beta meaning somethings may not work or may be buggy, I’ve managed to successfully Install GNU Cash, GIMP & Gnome Software Centre, but out of the 3 Linux apps that I installed only GNU Cash & GIMP works how they should.

When you Install Linux Apps on Chrome from within Settings you get a folder created in your App Drawer called Linux apps and local folder in your My Files location in Files called Linux files along with one App the Linux Terminal. If you are new to Linux you will struggle to work out how to Install Linux apps without an app store, & if you’re new to using Linux apps in Chrome OS you’ll be left scratching your head at how to install apps from within Chrome OS like I was.

How To Install Windows 10 On Acer Chromebook 11

I initially tried the usual command for installing apps in Linux

sudo apt-get install gnucash

this left me scratching my head wondering why the command worked but threw a packages not found error, after a google search I found out that I needed to run the command sudo apt-get update to update the packages list (thanks to “https://www.howtogeek.com/363331/how-to-set-up-and-use-linux-apps-on-chrome-os/” for the excellent tutorial).

After running CloudReady on my HP Stream 11 since the 24th of December 2018 it’s made me enjoy using the Stream 11 again, as with Chrome OS/Chromium OS in the form of CloudReady has made it the useful little machine that it was intended to be.

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When I realised that the HP Stream 11 was pretty useless with Windows 10 I tried using my usual fallback OS Ubuntu Linux, but it was unusable due to the WiFi card being unsupported.

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Roland