I run Linux at the office on my desktop and ~100 physical/virtual machines. But for my personal box, when my 8 year old Thinkpad finally died, I wasn't doing v

I run Linux at the office on my desktop and ~100 physical/virtual machines. But for my personal box, when my 8 year old Thinkpad finally died, I wasn't doing very much with it and wanted something cheap and easy to maintain. And I wanted to see if I could live on a chromebook. The cheap part it did meet, though that was partly because it was refurb. It's surprisingly close in hardware to my $2500 Thinkpad that work brought me, similar display resolution, similar "feel". The Chromebook was $500 refurb or would have been just under a grand new. I don't have to "maintain" it, which I appreciate since I have 100 Linux boxes I maintain at work. My work laptop is running Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04 wouldn't install on it because it's too new. It was a fairly simple install, things mostly work on it. I do have some issues but nothing major. One thing I really hoped for was to be able to use the docking station with multiple monitors, but that isn't supported at all in Linux because of the multiplexer in it. But I can't get the chromebook to work with a USB-C to HDMI adapter either, so...