Currently Ubuntu has the highest priority among Linux-based operating systems. We've left the other distros up to the community and that has worked out okay.
@Glasstromnome, could you or someone here try running the software on a Chrome OS machine to see what happens?
Get your Chromebook into developer mode, open up a terminal and download the Leap software.
ar xv Leap*-x64.deb
tar xzvf data.tar.gz
cd ./usr/sbin
ldd leapd # look for any missing dependencies and resolve them
sudo ./leapd
If you get that far, you might be able to confirm if it detects the Leap from standard output, showing automatic orientation reversal, etc. For graphical apps, I don't know if the windowing system on Chrome OS could run our VisualizerApp, so for the next debugging steps may involve installing gcc and playing with the SDK.
I think a Chromebox is more work to get into developer mode, so you should probably start with a Chromebook or other convenient test platform of your choice.
Edit: We've confirmed this runs on a Toshiba Chromebook in developer mode. There is no ar command on the default developer setup so I had to grab data.tar.gz separately. Be sure to copy the contents into /usr/local as other places such as the Downloads folder may have a noexec setting. VisualizerApp does not display in this window manager, but you can get hand data via some of the SDK samples.
It's reasonable to expect the same procedure to work on a Chromebox.