I tried using a chromebook for general development and it was not a pleasant or efficient experience. My goal was to compile and write something using Python a

I tried using a chromebook for general development and it was not a pleasant or efficient experience. My goal was to compile and write something using Python and OpenCV, a computer vision library. While one can indeed run Linux apps, the vast majority of what I needed was not pre-compiled. Compiling led to issues with having to compile parts of the toolchain, which went up a couple levels of recursion. Compile some library so you can compile some other library so you can compile a program to compile some thing that she used to compile some package. Then library conflicts, and so forth. I haven’t needed to do this since about 2004. Plus, then waiting for a Chromebook to compile large packages can take all day. There’s no way I’d try this again versus just getting a normal laptop and installing Linux.