Wow, thanks for detailing what it is actually like! Now that you describe it, it really does seem very inconvenient. I guess I had my head in the clouds a bit, and was distracted by the small size of these units. I suppose they are meant to really just be used at one location, but not take up a lot of desk space… Unfortunately, a reasonably affordable Linux laptop with decent specs and that doesn’t weigh a tone does not really exist. Probably chromebook conversions remain the best bet. It seems that current generation chromebooks with Skylake processors are now supported in Gallium OS by a custom firmware update. That might be where I look too next. The real pain about chromebooks is the tiny SSD’s they ship with. They can be upgraded for not too unreasonable of prices, though (it was about $100 for a 128 SSD replacement for my this Acer C720 I am still using, and probably much cheaper these days).