Worth trying, but if it doesnāt work it doesnāt work. While i think graphics/art functionality is improving, you do limit yourself more so than other tasks.
So a little update on my Chromebook experience.
The past month or so especially this has become my goto computer for most day to day stuff and iām honestly finding it very nice to use. Iāve been using it primarily for browsing the web, communicating with people, writing, my day to day organisation for things i need planning, ordering stuff etc. watching tv etc (which i can just stream to the TV from the chromebook.
Its easy to pick up and use, boots in seconds, updates are a breeze because of A/B partitions. Iāve found app support from Android is pretty good, though for the most part iām just using a few basic app, calc etc. And container support is quite good as well when i need some dedicated writing tools or other Linux apps. I have libreoffice installed but actually find google docs does the job i need for my use cases. The Linux terminal is also nice for when i need to SSH into something.
I donāt know if thereās a huge interest, but if thereās any questions I can try and answer.
Iām increasingly likening ChromeOS as time goes on.
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Because the more editors the better? I donāt know, but atom opens nicely. I want to see if I can have it run nicely with higher DPI and sync with Google drive etc.
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The pricing for the acer chrombook 13 and 13 spin, were announced today. Prices are insane. 
I think Iāll just go chromium os. I just found out how to install android apps on Linux thru anbox.
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Iām wondering where the cost was for those devices, maybe the build quality is much higher. But it seems like it might have been an oversight on at least the storage space, yes there ācloud devicesā in a lot of respects however with both Android and container support being and becoming a standard part of ChromeOS the 32GB/64GB space is pretty tiny.
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For the storage space, maybe Google would like to keep it low, for people to buy into their cloud storage space, to help them get more money. And maybe the manufacturers are thinking that people will not use the laptops for productivity or development or anything like that. Because the Chromeboxās can get pretty high when it comes to storage space.
As for the price of the units. Manufacturers probably wanted to drop out of the whole Chrome OS space because of the low profit margin on the devices, and Google was all like āWait you guys can have high profit margin, just watch what we can doā. So Google went out and created the high end Chromebook, and manufacturers saw that they could make high profit margin from the devices, and well now prices are going up. This is more or less a conspiracy theory from me tho. Hopefully not at an Aremis level.
But the value of those high end chromebooks are awful. emmc memory is not really the best. Unless if it is nice emmc 5.1. But even then it is not fully duplex. Surely it would not be that much of a price increase to just solder on an SSD.
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I donāt think they are. with some devices there is higher storage, and their āhigh endā āreferenceā pixelbook I guess you could call it has lots of storage. Keep in mind, you need to storage for saving things like Netflix videos, offline YouTube videos, etc. etc.
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A little chromebook update. In Dev mode and Canary mode, you can now install .deb programs from the GUI.
It does make me wonder if they may be looking to make the default container seamless for people to use, e.g. not requiring using the command line to make use of the Debian container for Linux apps.
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i really need to get my hands on a chromebook because sooo much has changed since i last used it XD
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I donāt get the debian packages thing. Why donāt they just custom compile their own applications? Itās not as if they are Gentoo based or anything. They also have the processing power and such to pull something like this off.
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They are Gentoo based (sort of), they use the portage system https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/packages/portage
Youād have to manage and maintains thousands of packages, in what format?, which packages should they include and not include? Thatās a huge job requiring a huge amount of time and resources. Its one of the reasons for example that Arch only officially supports 5k packages and not 20k like most other distros.
Part of ChromiumOS is the whole security thing, it would mean vetting and fine tuning all the applications they build with security in mind.
The point of the container project is to allow running of potentially any Linux thing inside (at least) a default secure container which is much more flexible.
You can read more here https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md
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A nice little update as well is they now donāt show suggestions for chrome/google play apps when searching. Seems like they actually listened for this one, as it was a complete pain. I could see why they were trying it but it wasnāt very well implemented. Chrome 70 will have it disabled.
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So I guess this is just my little ChromeOS update thread 
Since the only other Chromebook user i know is @wolfleben.
Just thought this was an interesting article on ChromeOS 70 updates which will come out to stable soon.
Specifically looking at some of the new tablet features
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So the intresting thing is that while Android Tablets have failed to take off, the Chromebooks have been doing well. I knew that there was movement to Chrome Tablets. Pretty neat stuff.
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I wonder whatās harder, trying to install postmarketOS on an NVidia Shield K1 or installing Arch Linux on a laptop. Cause itās really been a big challenge for me still.
Did you post in the wrong topic?
Nah but I did go a bit off topic there. At least somewhat though since he brought up Android tablets. But other than that, yeah it was off topic. I lost my mind a bit trying to get postmarketOS to work on a tablet.
Ah I see, I read it and my brain just didnāt make the connection
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Yeah. It was still a bit off topic.
I wonder how easy or hard it would be to install a traditional Linux distro onto a Chromebook.
It depends
Always good to remember that ChromeOS is a traditional Linux distro in almost every sense.
You can run containers. Or you can run GalliumOS, @wolfleben does this for example.
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