I've tried a Chromebook and was not impressed. Better to get an old Intel laptop and install a severely cut-down Linux distro on it. I have tried several but if all you want is a machine that runs a browser, it's hard to beat the "Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC" load. Runs fast even on a very old laptop and has essentially zero sysadmin burden.
I confess one of my ulterior motives is to try to hack the Chromebook to run Linux on it. I need to do more research on which devices that would work on. I have an old ThinkPad that is a Linux machine and it's my "when everything else fails" machine, aka SHTF ;-)
I've tried a Chromebook and was not impressed. Better to get an old Intel laptop and install a severely cut-down Linux distro on it. I have tried several but if all you want is a machine that runs a browser, it's hard to beat the "Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC" load. Runs fast even on a very old laptop and has essentially zero sysadmin burden.
I confess one of my ulterior motives is to try to hack the Chromebook to run Linux on it. I need to do more research on which devices that would work on. I have an old ThinkPad that is a Linux machine and it's my "when everything else fails" machine, aka SHTF ;-)
Another alternative is ChromeOS Flex, which seems to be the Linux layer that's underneath Chromebooks. But I found that the PiOS outran ChromeOS Flex.