"I think my next laptop is going to be a Chromebook. I can do everything from browser and any heavy computing/coding I will just ssh to home. Sounds good."

3 days later, my Chromebook is running Ubuntu 80% of the time since I bought it.

You've answered my question on if I could handle a Chromebook. Thank you.

@GreyCatastrophe I mean it's basically a "cheap" laptop with confirmation that Linux runs well in it. I don't think I can find a cheaper Windows alternative of same spec with similar price...

@Tuguthar that is a good point. I didn't think about that. A good Linux box is all we need. Though.... What is a good Linux distro is a can of worms I don't think I want to touch. Lol.

@GreyCatastrophe
Manjaro it's the stable version of arch. Not exactly but close enough it uses Pacman aur.

@Jop- I use chrx which is a tool to prepare the env for dual boot. Crouton iirc is running Linux distro inside Chrome OS (something like VMware)

@Jop- oh okay I guess I was following a wrong guide on that part. Now I'm not sure what's the difference but I have chrx going fine for me so...
// TODO: figure out crouton

@TuguMonas I did find a cheap i5 Windows laptop though (that I run linux on ofc)

@DirtyBit mine's a Dell Chromebook 13 i3 / 4GB with IPS touchscreen for $280. and also I'm "running heavy processes by ssh to my desktop" so even Celeron would work for me[citation needed].

@TuguMonas i've got a i5 6200u, 4GB DDR4, 128GB SSD with a crappy 15" 720p display for €400 and it was able to run tensorflow pretty well, I'm quite happy with it

@TuguMonas oh and yeah I have a crap desktop so ssh wasn't really an option for me lmao

I'm able to use a raspberry pi to actually host my Dev environment, and use the chrome secure shell app to log in, since I use vim from the command line anyway... Only issue is when my Chromebook has zero net connection, but that's very rare these days anyway

@DirtyBit if your chromebook is not playing well with it anymore at some point, AWS Lightsail / DigitalOcean droplet might be a good choice

@nmunro true, my pc is always on at home so I don't use my raspberry pi for this anymore haha

@TuguMonas It's not a chromebook though

@DirtyBit oh lol totally missed that one my bad

@TuguMonas i5 chromebook would be pretty neat though I guess

@DirtyBit I'm not complaining with i3 because the battery life right now can reach ~10 hours. my laptop charger never even go out with me to work/class.

@TuguMonas Yeah my laptop has a terrible battery life