Chromebooks are one of the most secure devices you can give a non-technical end user, and at a price point few can argue with, but that security comes with a privacy trade off: you have to trust Google, which is part of the NSA’s Prism programme, with your data in the cloud….

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook/