Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
As long as you have a Crostini-capable ChromeOS device, you can run flatpacks. This is actually the preferred way to run Firefox (via the Linux Flatpack).
there is a noticeable perf penalty on devices I’ve tested, particularly around gpu (but that may change in the future) it’s also just kinda a bit annoying for normal folk to use i’ve found
As long as you have a Crostini-capable ChromeOS device, you can run flatpacks. This is actually the preferred way to run Firefox (via the Linux Flatpack).
crostini is still in a vm (albiet crosvm is really good) I would really prefer real native
The virtual machine adds valuable security isolation with hardly any performance penalty. What’s the drawback?
there is a noticeable perf penalty on devices I’ve tested, particularly around gpu (but that may change in the future) it’s also just kinda a bit annoying for normal folk to use i’ve found