Linux has saved me thousands of dollars...

A couple days ago, my mum gave me her "broken" chromebook... it was stuck in recovery mode and every time she restarted or shut down she would have to reflash chrome os which would take about an hour of her time. she was about to throw it away. i'm 19 and i'm going into my 3rd year of university. last year, my second year. i had to use my ipad for...