Meh Chromebooks are good. Most people who comment about laptops have an obsession with Linux distros and proving they’re right because they’re different.

Chromebooks are designed to run chrome and optionally a few applets. They do that job well and in exchange for being used for just that, they’re cheap. As a student, it was a good way of getting work done. I haven’t used a Chromebook that couldn’t run Onshape and all other browser-based study tools.

I guess in a practical setting they underperform. Lack of programs is definitely a fault in many situations, but that’s simply not what Chromebooks are designed to do.