I have loved for a long time both ChromeOS as a laptop operating system, and Chromebook as a laptop hardware platform, but always had reason to keep something else around. Discovered it can do USB serial without an extension... Very happy now!

You must hate your fingers so much.

Compared to the MacBook Pro I had for work 2017-2019 the keyboard is amazing. I still have a desktop Linux machine, but for a laptop, I don't think I've ever had a "bad" Chromebook keyboard. YMMV?

I've never had a chromebook which didn't make my fingers hurt. Ditto macbooks though, so that comparison is basically worthless to me :D I guess that they might be better than a mac, but I've never used either long enough to know if the how the levels of pain and horror relate.