Recently, my Dell started having some troubles after many years of hard use - the wifi chip seems to have some problems. Since I need to be able to at least do

Recently, my Dell started having some troubles after many years of hard use - the wifi chip seems to have some problems. Since I need to be able to at least do email and web things, I went out and got a $130 Chromebook at OfficeMax. I was actually quite impressed with it! But the screen was a bit too small, so I took it back and upgraded to a $250 computer. I'm very impressed at what it can do for that price. The user experience is very good, all smooth sailing, and in addition, the Linux subsystem is quite usable. I got my Elixir/Phoenix hobby project running on it without much trouble. My original plan was to just hang on to this computer while I ordered a new Dell, but I'm considering whether I need to do that... $1800-ish for a new XPS 13 is a lot more than $250. The keybindings and window manager do bug me a bit on ChromeOS compared to the custom stuff I've had set up on Linux that dates back to fvwm2 days, but it looks like if you dig around, you can tweak things. Seems there's even a focus follows mouse option!