$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers

A Google partner is selling 3000 USB sticks with Linux distribution (ChromeOS) installers?

Honestly that's not a lot. It probably won't make a dent in either ChromeOS or Linux without considerable marketing effort and the right user expectations.

This is a bootable USB memory stick with ChromeOS Flex on it.

There has to be a very niche market for people who want ChromeOS on their device but do not have the technical know-how to do so, or without a device that can flash an iso.

I guess for $3 it's not really a cash-grab or anything. Kinda nice to see vendor-supported live USBs honestly

Old outdated computer will probably not have usb-3 so using it as a live-cd will be painfully slow.

This is great! Only concern I have is that it seems Google is moving to Android Desktop OS. So would ChromeOS be supported in the future? What about the hardware support in this case?

I mean, a "live" option booted off a USB drive is pretty common for linux? Pretty sure Slackware has one, and probably most other distributions?

I think this actually installs ChromeOS Flex? I guess Google will do anything to increase their ad-delivery surface?

Interesting idea - could it be done for a Linux distro?

Fighting obsolescence with "most likely to become obsolete" OS