So I bought a cheap chromebook with an intel chip to run linux on and use as a dev machine. The spacebar screen is a constant source of anxiety but it's even w

So I bought a cheap chromebook with an intel chip to run linux on and use as a dev machine. The spacebar screen is a constant source of anxiety but it's even worse than that. The reason I am on chromeOS with sideloaded linux (crouton) is because when you flash custom bios (seabios) you need to authorize it, if your computer runs completely out of battery (like it did for me on a flight to Iran), then that authorization is revoked and you need to boot into chromeOS to fix it (something I couldn't do since I didn't have chromeOS) so the only thing you can do is press spacebar and wipe everything. I think I'll never buy a chromebook again, I'll just get something from puri.sm or slimbook.es.