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Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Chromebook

The beauty of single-board computers is that they can be switched between operating systems easily – it’s just a case of swapping a microSD card over and switching it back on. The operating systems are easy to install too, flashed to a card from your PC with a user-friendly piece of software.

So we’re going to swap in Chromium OS – an open-source version of the Chromebook OS – it’s as minimal as things come without being a command line, because it’s just the browser. But that doesn’t mean it’s limited. There’s a full office suite in there, cloud storage, image editors, e-book readers and other tools that

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