Linux is also available on an ASUS Chromebox 3
As a developer I wanted a high-end Chrome OS experience so that I could run the latest 64-bit version of the developer tool that I use: 'VS Code' (aka just 'Code'). This runs seamlessly in a Linux container. I installed it a couple of weeks ago shortly after my ASUS Chromebox 3 sporting a core i7 8th Gen processor arrived and I'd moved to the Developer Channel. As an IT professional with 40+ years of experience, most recently working as a Microsoft Solution Provider, I had grown disillusioned with Windows (remember Vista and Windows 8?) and Microsoft's direction and developer tooling. They evangelise like crazy and then dump tech after tech. Look at the original Surface on ARM, Windows Mobile for extreme examples that cost the company billions.Think of Silverlight and other tech that was unceremoniously dumped to the chagrin of many developers who had invested time and money in Microsoft tech. What of Windows Universal Platform (UWP)? . . . well good luck with that. Windows and in particular Windows Update is a massive PITA. Every 6 months when the biggies comes down the pipes I spend anywhere between two hours and two days getting my desktop functioning as it did. Some years ago I invested in a cheap ASUS Chromebit so that I could put my toe in the water with Chrome OS and as a result of that experience I'm now fully invested into the Google ecosystem and my experience is much much better that when I was engaged with the ever smug Microsoft community.
I can only suggest that the people who talk about running Linux rather than Chrome OS or Windows because it's more capable buy a cheap Chromebook or the like and play around as I did. I doubt that you'll look back. Yes I fire my old Windows devices up for a few hours every week when I need to perform a specific task or support some of my old Windows customers or even check out how my web apps run in Chrome, Edge, Firefox . . . on Windows, but apart from that I'm running Chrome OS & loving the unbloated,largely hassle free 41,121 Octane 2 score experience. For those of you not taking Chrome OS seriously consider that Adobe are working closely with Google to ensure that their new Android video editor 'Project Rush' will work well in Chrome. 4K video editing requires serious power and this stuff looks like, if you don't like available Linux editors, you'll be able to run whatever Adobe release 'Project Rush' as. This stuff is here now for Developers and everyone else by Q1 2019 at the latest and it's 'Just Better'.
I hope you appreciate the time I've taken here . . . I'm not saying this to fool you ;).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
