@neauoire @aw covid closing the schools really accelerated this push to get them in the hands of every kid in the local school districts, which from an equality perspective was much better than the previous status quo.
but the rollout here was done in such a way that the chromeos sandbox/firewall was trivially bypassed and you could get a full debian chroot just by asking the OS nicely, which was kind of awesome. granted most kids will continue to see the computer as an appliance, but the kids who are curious will find their exploration rewarded.