This has made my pixel c still very useful although its going to make the linux development story on chromebooks far more secure, before android apps you had to put your system into insecure developer mode. If you need GUI based linux apps then you still will need to either convert a windows machine to linux or run in insecure mode. While running a terminal on your phone might have limited usefulness running a terminal on an android tablet or chromebook with android support is very useful for development.