There's a way to put Linux on a Chromebook but that's even trickier.
Tablets, depends on the model I suppose. I have a rugged Panasonic tablet that I run Ubuntu on. It's a touch screen but the kind where you have to use a stylus. Works fine on Ubuntu though.
Here's what my Panasonic CF-H2 rugged tablet looks like
Mine's silver but they made them in white too for the medical field. Kind of an oddball but it's an Intel machine made for Win 7 and Ubuntu works just fine. Linux/Ubuntu works fine on most anything that ran windows. I use Thinkpad laptops for daily use and have for close to two decades running various flavors of Ubuntu. They sold a lot of Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed.
Thanks!