We may be doomed to an infinite regress here. After all, a Chromecast is more locked down than an iPad... Someone considering running chrooted Linux on a Chrom

We may be doomed to an infinite regress here. After all, a Chromecast is more locked down than an iPad... Someone considering running chrooted Linux on a Chromebook is going to be more interested in a Mac than an iPad, so IMO that's the more useful comparison. I did run Crouton on a ChromeOS device and came to regret it. ChromeOS devices don't run a mainline kernel, they run something that Google provides which eventually stops receiving updates. The audio app I wanted to run required a newer kernel, and there was no way to get it short of forward-porting a bunch of device support and building it myself. IMO for Linux development, users are better served by a real Linux laptop than by a ChromeOS chimera.