Thousands of distros and not the one that would take off. Sad!
And now, with this announcement, the moment has passed.
I tried to make a custom container that would run under the regular ChromeOS crosvm, all the "agent" stuff for e.g. transporting wayland over virtio is brittle crap that crashes with no useful error if you don't invoke it perfectly correctly.
What I want is the idea of wayland-over-virtio to be reimplemented by others.
... that would just be Linux then? GalliumOS was Ubuntu for Chromebooks (with ChromeOS patches for touchpads etc). Mainline Linux is good enough nowadays for most things.
Several companies offer custom ChromeOS images with their own tools and one was even purchased by Google, but they focused on centralised management for classrooms etc.
Maybe it is more about the business model. ChromeOS runs efficiently on low-cost hardware for a small license fee (?), and get almost guaranteed updates. In exchange, customers sell their souls (actually, data) to Google. Won't happrn with Linux. But undeniably it sells and works well enough for ChromeOS.
You mean "ChromeOS community", right?