[RuggedPineapple]

I invest significant resources in my desktop. But my laptops? For the last 5 years or so I've used exclusively pre-owned chromebooks, cost about 50 dollars on mercari. Flash aftermarket firmware, install linux, and I'm in business. Its usually a celeron with 4 gb of ram, although my first was 2 gb. They're plenty snappy. Youtube loads pretty much instantly. Playing actual real games is probably a step too far, but as a second screen to just have and use around the house there isn't really any compromise.

[walteweiss]

The very same for me, I have 5 MacBooks collecting dust (some are broken, some aren’t), but 2GB Samsung 11” Chromebook is my favourite. It broke recently.

Any models you would recommend to check? I haven’t been in look for Chromebooks for years (like 5 years). I would rather buy small and tiny, and also very cheap. As my use-case is just slacking with it around the house.

[RuggedPineapple]

When I need a new one I'm just looking at what's available for a decent price (usually local on Mercari, sometimes eBay) and then checking the list of supported models for the not-ChromeOS firmware at https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Supported_Devices

If it's supported and I'm comfortable with the method for disabling write-protect then I pull the trigger.

I usually install xubuntu, but on a couple models I've found Ubuntu/Debian based distros have some issues with the trackpad, but Fedora running XFCE works fine, so you may want to go straight to that if you're comfortable with Red Hat.