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Or I could just... buy a laptop that doesn't have an expiration date.
Yup. My point is simply that with the latest announced support cycle ChromeOS has a longer support cycle than any single Linux distro LTS release I know of, and even when out of support a Chromebook isn't automatically an ewaste paperweight.
But you're comparing apples and oranges. With a Chromebook, the OS is being updated to a new version every month. You're comparing a device being able to support a certain number of versions of an OS to an OS receiving application and security updates. It's a meaningless comparison because a typical laptop running Linux can be upgraded to an arbitrary number of new versions of any Linux distribution.