But it might be not avaiable anymore but I think the successor is similar.
I put it in dev mode and worked mainly with chrome dev tools as IDE and a simple texteditor for node scripts.
That worked well and I did not needed more.
There is in theory a linux vm, but last time I tried, it was buggy and performance intense, so no option for my days work, but good to have the opportunity to have more powerful tools at hand at times, like inkscape, because chromeOS as itself is not so nice to use and very limited in every way, but what works, works.
Think I've read somewhere that those can be reloaded with pure Linux to replace Chrome OS. Not saying you should, only nothing that one probably could.
