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Is there anything i can do with this laptop?
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Does chromebook hardware need special distros? Debian has an armv7 port, there's Arch Linux ARM, Gentoo packages build for arm (though I feel like you'll have a horrible time building anything on that piece of junk), etc.
Though ARM is notoriously horribly inconsistent when it comes to bootup so I don't know if any of these will work on this specific device.
ARM is shit at hardware discovery in general. So no, chromebooks don't need a special distro. They however need a kernel adapted to the specific hardware, often down to the model (that's also the reason Android updates take so long on phones and there is very time limited support... there's always someone needed to adapt new updates to the specific hardware for each device, so they don't bother for anything but their latest products).