I too was drawn to chromebook via price, battery and lightweight. It was basically a writing device. I got an acer flip I think. 4gb ram. I think if crostini was out then, it would have been much better. But the 4gb meant it was impractical to run dual ChromeOS and chrouton, and actually install programs. I forget what inboard storage was. But it was not enough for even small programs really.
But the final showstopper was the screen. It was too shiny. I guess this is a personal eyesight thing. I can't work on shiny screens. I must have a matt screen.
I think once crostini matures, and a cheap Chromebook with decent resources becomes available, I could use one with Emacs and plugins. But... I can get a cheap W10 lenovo SSD Refurb with 8 hour battery life and that boots just as fast (bye bye Windows update) with a matt screen, and it does so much more out of the box. Admittedly I have spend 2-3 hours setting it up right, but once it's done, it's fine. I could put "real" Linux on it too. Indeed, with a big enough SSD I could run Linux and Windows. But I admit, the case is not shiny.
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