Project Crostini. "Native" Linux is Debian, run inside of a container, which is in turn run inside of a restricted VM. You don't get root in the VM, but you g

Project Crostini. "Native" Linux is Debian, run inside of a container, which is in turn run inside of a restricted VM. You don't get root in the VM, but you get access to commands for manipulating containers. Inside the container you have full access, but no devices. Current limitations: you don't get accelerated graphics, no sound, and can't access USB or SD storage from the Linux container (yet). Things that look really good, you can install .apt packages from the Chrome file manager, and anything with a .desktop file shows up in the Chrome launcher. Looks like there are a bunch of patches with accelerated graphics coming in, and audio should be coming sometime too. Better storage should be available once they re-baseline on kernel version 4.18+, as that has non-root fuse mounts. BTW, the reason for a lot of limitations of for security, so that a Linux app can't possibly negatively affect the rest of the system. For that reason, they don't have a mechanism to run Linux programs on system startup -- you have to purposely launch any apps.