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Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
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Not easily, the accessible linux environment is a container that doesn’t give you lower level access. You can do more in developer mode I think.
Traditionally it has been an extremely minimal Linux distro with pretty much everything running in the Chrome process, if you ever looked at the processes that was nearly the only one other than system things. They are trying to separate the base “Linux distro” and the browser more to make it easier to maintain, so the browser will be a normal application.
Interesting, didn't know about the container thing!