Chromebooks with original chromeOS work awesome under the hood, fast startup, no standby/resume glitching, very long battery life - but the user facing side of

Chromebooks with original chromeOS work awesome under the hood, fast startup, no standby/resume glitching, very long battery life - but the user facing side of the OS is just horrible. And with using stock software, you are very limited. Unless you boot a full linux in a VM, but that comes with a worse performance. In developer mode, it is a perfect travel laptop for me as I mostly just need node and chrome dev tools.. but it would be nice, to run just any linux software, without using a VM. (and without having your OS deep integrated with google) So I would love to have my chromebook with a true linux - but then the glitches will come again in my experience .. even the stuff that is marked as "works" often won't work the same as with ChromeOS. And I don't feel like picking up that fight again.