If you can write code to drive hardware from pinouts I think you can click a button to enable Linux apps.

Writing code means not requiring Linux apps.

Pis don’t require Linux, they support Linux. If you want to teach kids on RISC OS like I was in the late 90s, there isn’t anything stopping you.

You were that is all true. I was speaking more to the Chromebook model, not so much what someone wants to or needs to run on a Pi.

I don't feel all that good about developments on things like iPads and Chromebooks. Not for stem type tasks.