One option is to put the Chromebook in dev mode and use Crouton[^1] to install Ubuntu as a chroot. It's easy to do and works well. You can use ChromeOS as usual

One option is to put the Chromebook in dev mode and use Crouton[^1] to install Ubuntu as a chroot. It's easy to do and works well. You can use ChromeOS as usual side by side. [1]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton