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https://galliumos.org/ has done a lot for this space. They're doing a great job at normalizing a *buntu distro across the various chromebook hardware.

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Interesting. Support looks patchy, only about 50% of listed devices are fully supported. https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility I searched for fully functional 2016 models and found only Acer Chromebook 11. Closer inspection revealed their information was inconsistent and that only 2014-2015 models work - 2016 models apparently don't and use the unsupported NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/acer-chr... Case in point: finding decent mobile Linux hardware is often a pain in the ass. Here is a frank discussion of Gentoo on Pixel Chromebook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Chromebook_Pixel_LTE

The hardware list should be correct. The ARM machines you linked are Acer Chromebooks 13s (CB5-311), not Chromebook 11s. The 2016 11s are Intel Bay Trail, and supported.

GalliumOS has good-to-very-good support for almost all Intel Chromebooks, but does not support any ARM models yet.

GalliumOS works very well on the 2015 Pixels. It was a lot of work to get there.

And as with all Linux laptops throughout history, you should definitely check the hardware compatibility list first.

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