Yes ChromeOS is based on Linux. But no actually has nothing to do with how they implemented. Instead they enabled the KVM on the ChromeOS Linux kernel. Then

Yes ChromeOS is based on Linux. But no actually has nothing to do with how they implemented. Instead they enabled the KVM on the ChromeOS Linux kernel. Then they implemented a second Linux kernel and then are using machine containers (LXC/LXD) on top of the VM. This approach gets you container separation of GNU/Linux applications and then a container and a VM from the ChromeOS Linux kernel. This gets you a very high level of security. Just love the approach. Should also get you instant GNU/Linux applications. Just click, container comes down, spins up, do what you need, disappears. This also allows a power user to use the hook to do almost anything you can do with any GNU/Linux machine. But also provides a far more approachable way for new to GNU/Linux users to get into Linux. Have a PB and used Wine, Steam, Docker and not had any problem using anything I would on a regular distro so far. Would love to see MS and Apple to implement GNU/Linux the same way on their desktop OSs. You could have a standard. But doubt we will see it.