A couple of weeks back there were reports about the Terminal app being spotted in Chrome OS hinting at future Linux application support. With less than a week to Google I/O, a new settings option for Linux apps has appeared on the Chrome OS Dev channel; titled as “Linux (Beta),” along with the description.
The description reads “Run Linux tools, editors, and IDEs on your Chromebook.” Reddit users were able to confirm that they were able to install Steam, however, GPU acceleration is currently broken so it will is unstable at the moment. furthermore, this feature seems to be limited to the Pixelbook, for now. We hope it will roll out more Chromebooks soon.
The support is seemingly found on the Pixelbook which is updated to 68.0.3416.0 version (platform version 10635.0.0). Post the update, there is a new option in the Chrome OS Settings for Linux apps running in a container. Google might change or tweak the user experience before the stable version hits.