You can't fuck up a Chromebook.

I've been using Linux distros on and off on personal and work computers for something like 15 years, I don't really want to deal with administration for a Linux machine unless I have to. Especially on a laptop, which like you said has power management challenges.

I'm typing this on a corp-managed Linux laptop and I get intermittent screen flickering that I would consider completely unacceptable from anything else. We have corp-managed Linux desktops and those sometimes just have the entire UI lock up if you use too much RAM. I did some Deep Learning work at home on a Ubuntu partition and that would also have the UI freeze up sometimes until I rebooted the computer.