I don't fully understand it all but I don't think it is a hack. It's the "new way" to do x11 type applications. I'm not at liberty to read the article on Waylan

I don't fully understand it all but I don't think it is a hack. It's the "new way" to do x11 type applications. I'm not at liberty to read the article on Wayland right now (alone with the three kids tonight and bedtime looms...). But I remember reading and thinking it wasn't complicated to understand and that this way of doing things is the future. It makes ChromeOS into a really powerful terminal. You can run stuff locally that's best to be run locally. Then you can run applications that don't run locally (like that need access to special hardware like a gpu) on the machine itself via x11 forwarding. It's very flexible and works. As a separate issue from mine (faulty ChromeOS sound), currently you can't use the sound hardware inside the container. But that'll get fixed soon. Just means there is no way to run Linux music making apps yet.