[clashandcarry]

For some with Intel or AMD X86 chips, Mr. Chromebox offers a BIOS that will allow another OS to be installed. I got a few more years out of Acer Chrombook with this BIOS and an 2.5" SSD upgrade.

https://mrchromebox.tech/#home

[shams93]

This is a good point, actually I think schools should buy the leftover devices and then run linux on them so kids can be learning things like django at school.

[paulryanrogers]

Kids have a lot of other important things to learn first. But perhaps for some high school elective.

One can run ChromeOS on old, used devices. They won't have quite the same security, but are a lot better than nothing.

[rcarmo]

I’m still using one of those as an electronics workbench machine.