This is indeed an interesting question and I would be interested in hearing more about this, yet none of the articles I have seen so far said anything about put

This is indeed an interesting question and I would be interested in hearing more about this, yet none of the articles I have seen so far said anything about putting something else on it. Looking at both the Raspberry Pi and my normal laptop, even the standard 16GB SSD should offer more than enough space for a normal Linux install of one of the ARM-compatible distributions. However, it would also be interesting to know whether the SSD can be changed for a bigger one. Is there any sort of locked bootloader involved in the factory Chromebook? I'd be thankful for any article pointing me in an appropriate direction.