My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS

The Chromebook Pixel was the first device I'd ever used with a 3:2 aspect ratio, which was brilliant. Unfortunately I didn't realize until after I bought one that the glossy screen made it unusable in most settings I wanted to use it in.

For ARM-based Chromebooks pmOS seems to be one of the best options out there, particularly because it's optimized for those kinds of mobile chipsets.

In the x86 world there are some more options to get rid of ChromeOS, for example the Chrultrabook Project or Ultramarine Linux have some pretty good docs on how to run various alternative OSes.

I have three Chromebooks. I liked the price, battery life, clickable touchpad and simplicity. I first bought one 12 years ago or so. Three was no Crostini at the time, but 13 hour battery life was splendid.

I made my engineering thesis from Spatial Planning on one I bought for around $50 used. It had broken glass so touch didn't work, but stylus worked, which came in handy a few times.

Recently I fell out of love with Chromebooks, because I think they are not so cheap anymore at least non-Mediatek ones. The author mentioned the writing is on the wall - ChromeOS getting replaced by Android. For me personally through the years I missed having Firefox more and more.

Last year I bought a used ultrabook instead of another Chromebook, but I still would like to install proper Linux on my old Chromebooks, especially the first one, maybe because of sentiment. It is Tegra K1 and it is not as easy.

Wormdingler is definitely one of the funniest device codenames ever :) The SC7180 is not quite a powerhouse though. The I/O is juuuust enough for one full-featured Type-C port, and eMMC storage is always kinda sad (watch its health btw!)