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.

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:

  • 12th-gen Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor or better
  • 8GB or more of memory
  • 128GB or more of storage
  • 1080p-resolution IPS LCD or better
  • 1080p webcam with temporal noise reduction
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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.

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