You should be able to. See my previous post with more details as to how I installed linux (arch) on my chromebox. It might be as straightforward for this versio

You should be able to. See my previous post with more details as to how I installed linux (arch) on my chromebox. It might be as straightforward for this version since it has an ARM processor instead of the x86 processor found in my setup. For instance, normal archlinux doesn't support non x86/x86-64 architectures.