The idea of being nexus is getting google updates directly from google. I thought the article was about getting OS installed into phone by google. Another clickbait article.

There are $150 laptops with 32GB sd card as storage.

Also someone should consider if their hardware is supported in Linux. Its not new case when wifi or graphics card will never work in Linux. I have tried several times ditching windows and using linux for work and daily use. At the end windows won the battle.