I don't particularly like Chromebooks, but this doesn't seem like a fair characterization. You can put Chromebooks in Developer Mode without needing anyone's pe

I don't particularly like Chromebooks, but this doesn't seem like a fair characterization. You can put Chromebooks in Developer Mode without needing anyone's permission. You can install Linux on them. You can run Linux programs on them. (Though I don't know for sure that you can run gdb on them.)