Like a few others here I've always thought that running all your apps on the OS in containers could be cool. It's my impression that Chrome OS already kind of w

Like a few others here I've always thought that running all your apps on the OS in containers could be cool. It's my impression that Chrome OS already kind of works like this - with each app in it's own sandbox. Are there any inherent limitations on doing things this way? Because it seems to me that the benefits gained in security, convenience and ease of installation would out-weight any downsides here. Downsides being: more RAM required, less "bare metal" access, more hard drive space required. I am NOT a systems engineer but running all apps in their own containers seems to make a lot of sense at an intuitive level.