1202 ALARM

  During the first Covid-19 lock down, I bought my son a new Acer Chromebook for home learning, but he decided he preferred the 10-year old Linux Mint laptop he'd been using (and still is, teenagers eh?), so the new computer went to his mum meaning that her 2014 Acer C720 Chromebook was now surplus. I played about with it for a bit, but as Google stopped supporting it with security updates in late 2019 I reckoned it would be worth investigating putting a proper Linux OS onto it. A bit of research led me to the Fascinating Captain's blog http://www.fascinatingcaptain.com/projects/dual-boot-chrome-os-and-linux/ and trial running using live flash drive versions of a couple of Linux distros and I was convinced the laptop was worth upgrading. I bought a 128Gb M.2 SDD for £25 (eBay) to replace the 16Gb one in the C720 and removed the write-protect screw while I had the case apart so that the BIOS could be fully flashed with the excellent update scripts courtesy of MrChromebox. https: