In some ways, and if everything aligns, ChromeOS is actually better:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-hter...
But "if everything aligns" == "only if you're inside Google".
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-hter...
But "if everything aligns" == "only if you're inside Google".
Makes a lot of sense sense since Chrome OS is much easier to secure than a normal Linux distribution.
Google also has goobuntu, which I'm being is what's provided to engineers.
I tried it for a while, but I'm too used to the Mac to have made the switch more easily, so I moved back. But I know quite a few folks who use and love them. Opinions, as I'm sure you can guess, vary widely. It was surprisingly not-bad, even for a diehard mac user, and that was on a model from two years ago.
That seems unlikely, if only for the security implications (would apply to any laptop of course, nothing to do with macos or chromeos)
Google is a very large engineering organization, and (my opinion here, but one shared by others) recognizes that there's a lot of diversity in what engineers like for their workflow. There's obviously a set of standards for what you can choose from as far as laptops (since the company is buying them), but it's pretty broad.
Here's a Quora answer that goes into more detail: https://www.quora.com/What-computer-or-laptop-do-software-en...
You can read more about Google's security model in a USENIX ;login article from last year: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
(source: The above cited sources, plus I'm part-time at Google.)
https://mikecborg.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/securing-clouds/ (search for all occurrences of 'chromebook')