This is all great in theory but real-world application is so painful and does not scale if it is anything more than a literal set it and forget it deployment. I

This is all great in theory but real-world application is so painful and does not scale if it is anything more than a literal set it and forget it deployment. I currently work in K12 and have looked into CloudReady for the last 3-4 months. We abandoned it mainly because deployment was unbearable if imaging or running around with a dozen USB sticks. If you choose to go the managed device route you pay twice, once for the Neverware license which can be transferred to another laptop if the original dies and once for a Google console license which is non-transferable (for the type of license we typically purchase). We are currently working on rolling our own district specific Chromium deployment full with managed updates. If you take away the money factor the sheer frustration of having to keep polishing turds and putting 6-8 year old hardware out there can be overwhelming whether it's as light as Chromium or still a bloated Windows image that takes 3 hours to deploy with all the hacky crap that has to happen to run outdated software. Keys come off, laptops get dropped, motherboards get fried from being on & closed in a laptop cart for 5 years and first-gen mSata SSD's fail. And then to do this with a staff of 6-10 people with varying skills for thousands and thousands of devices in some cases. Better off biting the bullet and buying proper Chromebooks for ~$300 and be done with it. Windows is done in education as a standard. Lab environment, sure. Office 365 will fill the role for learning the "essential" Office suite. The kids are ready to move on. It's the adults making the curriculum and trying to teach it that can't get beyond what they already know.