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Can I ask you the remaining 70% of the time what you do in pure Chrome OS? Web browsing, using Google docs etc..?

Browse HN and edit in Vim most of the time.

Can you switch without a full reboot?

I would also like to know this.

I used to use a dirty hack for that (https://github.com/agravier/chromarch), but it was developed for the first generation of Samsung chromebooks, I don't know if it would work on the latest ones.

Yes: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

This is the ridiculous opposite of "just works".

No, actually it isn't. A chroot environment to run Sublime and a few other GNOME applications is not the opposite of "just works." You're going to have to do a hell of a lot more configuration in OS X than in Chrome OS if you want to run X applications.

First of all, why would I want to run X applications?

That said, let's say I do -- so I download and double-click the MacPorts installer, and then run 'port install' to install an X11 app from a binary package.

Not that I'd want to.