Follow-up question: if i got a Chromebook and wanted to put a distro on it that does what ChromeOS does, what distro would you reccomend? Just to be clear, I strongly dislike Chrome but depend on Google apps for my schoolwork and my job, which is why I’m looking at a Chromebook at all.
As a middle ground you can run a Debian Linux VM on ChomeOS, https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439
I use a Chromebook as my day to day machine and then pop open the VM if I want to do anything fancy/with Linux. It’s not perfect, but works well enough. You can even run Firefox if you prefer.