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This has a far better screen than either of those objectively and a more preferable aspect ratio for many of us subjectively. Installing arbitrary Linux distributions on Chromebooks has been trivial in the past and almost certainly remains so with this one. Many people here would install their Linux distribution of choice on whatever laptop they bought anyway, so the shipping OS is a non-issue.

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And Linux would boot at native resolution, making the contents of your screen microscopic and useless. Linux isn't ready for High DPI.

I'd argue that Unity looks much, much better on high DPI. I run it on an old crappy 1024x768 and a newer 1920x1080 of around the same size, and the icons/launcher actually look sane at almost double the DPI of the older screen. Unity makes the low-DPI computer look (and feel) like a toy, but I like it a lot on my new computer.

I'd agree with you if you're running Gnome 2, or KDE, though.

Well the thing is that most people don't prefer Unity and neither do I. I don't really think that there are so many devs using Unity either.

Who is "most people", exactly?

I'm ready. I realise some people aren't, but I'm young with good vision; "microscopic" is exactly what I want. I'm buying the extra pixels so I can fit more on my screen, not so I can fit the same stuff with better-rounded edges.

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