Google's marketing department doesn't give a flying f*k whether you install another os on your chromebook. Use it however you like, with their blessing and even

Google's marketing department doesn't give a flying f*k whether you install another os on your chromebook. Use it however you like, with their blessing and even their assistance to the degree that they can help. Your "common knowledge" notwithstanding, I can tell you with 100% certainty that the os protection features in chromeos devices are about security. More specifically, it's about creating a device that Google can use themselves for extremely high-security use cases. You can trust it, or not, doesn't matter. But for Google, the modern Chromebook is the only desktop environment where they can be absolute sure that all the software and all the hardware are clean. Turns out that other companies like this capability as well, so it's a general product feature. But if all you want is some cheap hardware where you can flash the bios and run Windows Vista, then you just go ahead and be you. That's fine.