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What CPUs does Flex support though? This would be great to recover EOL Chromebooks. There are literally millions of them out there that are dead now, but would perform perfectly with Flex.

If you try it and it's good this would be worth doing a Show HN post for.

You can already do this with Neverware CloudReady, which Chrome OS Flex is basically a rebrand of.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/30282/how-to-get-updates-on-your...

I think the chances are pretty good, I have an old Toshiba Chromebook 2 running Cloudready, several years past the end of official support.

seems like they would be doing this with Flex if they could support the old CPUs.