My dad used an old laptop with Xubuntu on it for a while. Worked great for web browsing. I think a notebook computer with some flavor of Ubuntu preinstalled cou

My dad used an old laptop with Xubuntu on it for a while. Worked great for web browsing. I think a notebook computer with some flavor of Ubuntu preinstalled could stand in all right for a Chromebook; the challenge is how to penetrate a market that is pretty well-served already.