Most of them can be turned into a vanilla linux laptop fairly easily, and even support custom coreboot firmware: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ https://docs.mrc

Most of them can be turned into a vanilla linux laptop fairly easily, and even support custom coreboot firmware: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ That being said, it's also pretty easy to get a full linux shell and even install gui apps via flatpak or whatever.