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depending on how cheap you want to go you can always get a used/refurbished Chromebook Plus model (they have 8GB of RAM and 128gb+ of storage and a Ryzen3/Intel i3, so not terrible) for $200 or less, and then dual-boot into a Linux distro or just flash the BIOS entirely. Took me maybe an hour to get Lubuntu installed on an old Chromebook 4 (the old 4gb RAM/32 GB models) and it runs great given it's only got 2 cores. Great battery life but YMMV. There's a script that automates the BIOS flashing, and there's a pretty good walkthrough/explanation about getting it going on various models here: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/