I attempted last year to go all in on Chrome OS, bought a fully specced out Pixelbook but it has just consistently been less functional and less stable than even plain old Desktop Linux. Even linux app support is messy.
@baldur interesting to hear that you did not have good luck running linux apps -- were you doing it under crostini or crouton? I've been running a very low-spec. chromebook for a few months now, and exclusively run applications through crostini on it. I've found it to be as responsive/reliable as my other laptop (a 2014 macbook air (which is to say solid, but a bit slow)). Granted, I mostly just use Emacs, Gnome Nautilus, KDE Konsole, and a bunch of CLI apps. There have been a few major impreovements to crostini over the last few months that I think have made it almost as stable as the other big Linux distros. My biggest gripe is that I'd like more options of linux distro -- at the moment it defaults to Debian, and I've seen folks get Arch working, but I think Alpine would be a better fit for a lot of the existing chromebook hardware.
@eli I used “native” crostini support but also tried crouton which had its own issues. The problem is that most GUI apps have been laggy, unstable (occasionally catastrophically so), and frequently look a bit blurry or out of whack on high DPI displays. Non-English keyboard layouts were severely unusable for the longest time. Keyboard entry in most GUI apps has also been laggy as hell. Multiple display support has also been painful/buggy.
And all of that on a maxed out Pixelbook. All for an OS that I think is badly designed to begin with, irrespective of the bugs. 🤷♂️