The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you’ll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price.
With Chromebook Plus, you’re guaranteed to get at least the following specs, with a starting price of $399:
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Linux and Linux distros are generally designed to be hardware-agnostic, and generally works just fine on very old components. I’m currently running the current version of Ubuntu on a used U1 server from ~2013, no issues, no headaches. It just works. Grab any Windows PC from the last 20 years, you won’t have any compatibility issues running most Linux distros, though some distros might expect more performance. Linux Mint is fairly lightweight.
And you can install those distros on a Chromebook, no? You can probably use CloudReady after ChromeOS no longer supports it after 10 years.
Debian LTS for stable releases is 5 years
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
Ubuntu LTS is 5 years
https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Fedora is 13 months
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/
You aren’t understanding.
That’s support for one specific software release.
It’d be like saying Apple supports iPhones for 1 year not 5+ years, because they’re only on iOS version X for one year.
Linux devices get updates literally forever.