It’s perfect in this case.

It’s great you have a solution for yourself - and it’s good to share. But please don’t intentionally try to destroy someones excitement with something like “No, You don’t need it”. We don’t need more negativity.

But even in places with universal healthcare you’d pay less than the average US citizen over a lifetime.

I’ve wanted to do this but have read many chromebooks don’t like most linux distros. Is that still true?

Me too. I love the configurability of plasma combined with the popularity of ubuntu search results if I need to fix or change something.