[jmcnulty]

Linux on Chromebooks is Debian buster running in an LXD container. Being LXD there's no reason why you're limited to just one container either. I don't like to mess around with the default "penguin" container too much so I've added more. I've currently added centos7, centos8, ubuntu and another debian container. Plus you can take LXD snapshots, rollback, publish images etc.

Hint: Add a Ubuntu container and install LXD, then copy the lxc binary to your "penguin" container and setup a trust between it at the Chrome OS "termina" hypervisor. Then you can manage all your containers from the default linux install.

I have a Pixelbook Go with 8GB of ram and a 128GB drive.