I know little about installing linux on a chromebook, and I don't have one to try on, but i do have students who would like to use chromebooks for my course. Of course part of the course is to install a full distribution with all the programmer tools, so we can't just use the ChromeOS. Here are things I have heard, but it is all vague: 1. There is a way to unlock the boot so that you can boot from your debian or ubuntu or fedora USB drive. But I don't know what it looks like after that - do you do dual boot? Full replacement? Does the original ChromOS live in ROM so that you can do a full replacement and then return? 2. I've seen someone set up some kind of apt installation on top of chromeOS and get emacs and gnuplot going. It seemed insufficient to get the benefits of all the great utilities. 3. I've heard that more recent chromebook models make the #2 type of integration work better. I'm guessing that there are revisions of ChromeOS, or maybe a cutoff date (any Chromebook after (say) 2019-03 has full debian behavior, or something like that). In that case, would there be a resource available that lets you look up which makes and models (HP, Dell, Lenovo, ...) ones are good for that? So, does anyone here have resources to point me to to answer this question: "what's the best way to run a full GNU/Linux distro on a chromebook?"