My favorite device used to be a Chromebook (Dell Chromebook 13, codename Lulu). But it stopped getting updates a long time ago (wasn't covered by the new 10 year policy). It ran for a long time just fine but then a few sites started not working on the old version of Chrome.
I flashed it's bootloader to the Mr Chromebox one and now it's been running Fedora Kinoite very well. So still my favorite device, just a new favorite OS. Kinoite (via RPM Ostree) gives that same feeling of no worry updates.
ChromeOS is great and has only improved. Its great as an OS that needs absolutely no care and feeding. It was amazingly efficient, it didn't start struggling until 120+ browser tabs. But Kinoite (combined with things like Distrobox) is more flexible. There's a lot more of how the sausage is made especially getting full disk encryption going (I used tang and clevis) on Kinoite. And ChromeOS has some of the things that make Distrobox and Flatpaks great (desktop integration basically).
So TL;DR, look at flashing your bootloader and installing Linux.
I flashed it's bootloader to the Mr Chromebox one and now it's been running Fedora Kinoite very well. So still my favorite device, just a new favorite OS. Kinoite (via RPM Ostree) gives that same feeling of no worry updates.
ChromeOS is great and has only improved. Its great as an OS that needs absolutely no care and feeding. It was amazingly efficient, it didn't start struggling until 120+ browser tabs. But Kinoite (combined with things like Distrobox) is more flexible. There's a lot more of how the sausage is made especially getting full disk encryption going (I used tang and clevis) on Kinoite. And ChromeOS has some of the things that make Distrobox and Flatpaks great (desktop integration basically).
So TL;DR, look at flashing your bootloader and installing Linux.
https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html