There&#x27;s a lot of Gentoo hate in this thread. I think that&#x27;s funny when you consider that the most-used Linux distribution on desktop&#x2F;laptop computers is based on Gentoo. [1]<p>Google chose engineers for ChromeOS, and those engineers chose Gentoo. CoreOS also uses portage IIRC. Gentoo isn&#x27;t for everyone, but I think there&#x27;s probably a correlation between people who have used Gentoo (or similar) at some point in their life and people who know Linux thoroughly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-is-Chrome-OS-built-upon-Gentoo-and-not-the-more-popular-Debian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-is-Chrome-OS-built-upon-Gentoo-and...</a>