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For Windows: it can run Pro too, but that's still a low end machine.

For Linux: It has Secure Boot that can be toggled off but no one seems to have done the Linux enablement part for that specific model... so you might not have a good experience.

(most Qualcomm drivers don't have ACPI bindings on arm64 yet, so the Linux on those devices port involves writing a flattened device tree. This issue will go away at some point in the future)

Given that some Chromebooks are shipped with the same SoC, that task is doable. You might want to think about buying a Chromebook outright to put another Linux distribution on it too.

(see https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/debian-cdimage)

tldr: not the right machine to buy if you want to run Linux on it.



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