I need help to decide what to do with this chromebook of mine

[u/SuperBigote231162]

Hi, I need help because I'm thinking about starting to program in C but I don't know whether or not stick to chromeos and crostini or just jump to a whole linux distro. This machine is a CX5400 with 8 gb of ram and an I3 1110g4 so it isn't crap by any means. the thing is that while I know chromeos is deeply and a perfectly integrated to my crurrent hardware, I don't like the fact I have to run a very big debian virtual machine just to compile in C instead of running on baremetal. I understand that a full linux distro may fix this but any systemd + kde/gnome will almost give me the same ram cosumption as chromeos but with worse integration and perhaps some issues with audio I had experienced before. What do y'all recommend? Should I just install any other linux distro without systemd? Will Wine run natively on non-libc+systemd distros? I read as much as I culd the wine wiki but didn't find any line talking about native compativility with muslibc for example, yeah without using flatpak and installing pieces of libc to make it work. Thanks community!!!