[yathern]

Acer c720 owner here - people tend to mock chromebooks all the time as glorified web browsers.

To some extend, that's true. Most things I do that aren't development related are done on a web browser. It's absolutely perfect for that. Starts up extremely quickly, very light, long battery, lovely.

For very occasional dev purposes, I simply used crouton, which works insanely well. I can even use sshfs and go back to ChromeOS and have the drive still mounted. Highly recommend the c720, or whatever is the more recent equivalent.

[jimmies]

Oh I wiped Chrome and installed Linux directly on the SSD (upgraded it to 128gb). It works well too, Chromebooks are designed to work well with Linux :)

Now mainline Linux kernel support is so good to the point that you don't need to hack on it to get it to work.

[aksx]

which distro do you use? i see KDE in the picture.

[jimmies]

I use Kubuntu.

[burgerguyg]

For C720s, I like distroshare.com. It has a number of Linux distros that have been optimized for the C720. I'll actually be installing their distro of ElementaryOS on a C720 tonight for a kid in our CoderDojo group.