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More circumspectly, it depends. The three "major players" in operating systems out there are Microsoft Windows (Microsoft owns and micromanages it), MacOS, and Linux. MacOS and Linux share a common ancestor (UNIX), but Apple has done its level best to make itself as incompatible as possible. Unfortunately for them, UNIX was a heck of an operating system, and you can still do a lot of Linux hacking from the MacOS command line.
So, Linux programmers, knowing they're the "little kid on the block", do their utmost to make sure they can run other people's software. Their Windows "emulators" (they insist they're not, but it's a good term) can run pretty much anything except really old or really new games, and even though I haven't tried it, they're probably almost as good at running MacOS software.
Why does this matter? Because ChromeOS is Linux-based, much like MacOS, so you have that underlying uber-configurability that they prefer you not know about.
If you understand how to use apt-get install, sudo, or add Linux repositories, you could probably spend a couple of hours on the command line, reconfigure your ChromeOS kernel, violate all kinds of warranties, and get the program working. You could wipe ChromeOS and put a real Linux kernel in there and have a much better chance of success.
Or you could just take, "No," for an answer.
And that's why people hate Linux users. Because, "No," is unacceptable.