Difference is Chromebooks are fairly open hardware wise. Almost every model uses a Coreboot you can use alternative payloads on, so you can naively boot Linux,

Difference is Chromebooks are fairly open hardware wise. Almost every model uses a Coreboot you can use alternative payloads on, so you can naively boot Linux, or run it under Crouton is a nearly no overhead environment. Some Chromebooks are bad eggs that never provide unlocks to their firmware, but most do. Apple and Microsoft would never be that respectful of its users. The whole point of how draconian iOS and Windows RT 2.0 (aka 10 S) are is to strip user freedom to make more money.