On the face, it looks like it comes with some important tools like git, npm, nodejs, ... preinstalled. Some tools for handling detachable crypto filesystems al

On the face, it looks like it comes with some important tools like git, npm, nodejs, ... preinstalled. Some tools for handling detachable crypto filesystems also might come in handy. The Chromebook is actually a very developer-friendly platform, with a few notable exceptions; one of these is the dearth of software and difficulty of installing things in the developer-mode user's Crosh root shell. This one neatly sidesteps that (from what I can tell) by installing a few tools you will probably need, and making every user logon happen in Guest mode. Therefore you'll have to get accustomed to connecting your external (possibly encrypted) user files if you want to do development work. Basically take the popular paradigm of doing all of your "overhead/setup" work on vagrant hosts with chef scripts, and flip it over on its head.