If we kept Linux the kernel exactly as it is today, but redesigned
everything in userland from scratch (the init system, the filesystem
hierarchy, the shell, libc, packaging, configuration, dbus, polkit, PAM,
etc.), what would you do differently, and why?
- Nitro instead of systemd
- musl instead of glibc
- LLVM/clang instead of gcc
- uutils instead of GNU coreutils
- apk as a package manager
- r/o filesystem in a virtual A/B configuration for immutability and instant-reboots (no post-update reboot delays unlike rpm-ostree).
- A minimal Rust-based WM/DE similar to XFCE/LabWC but with user-friendly GUI config and sane defaults, with zero GTK and Qt components.
- Ideally all GUIs will be coded in something fast and minimal, like e-GUI. Ideally the entire system will be free of bloat like GTK/Qt/Electron/Javascript crap, and anything that uses it will be containerised.
Nothing.
Because breaking existing systems is bad design.
^ That's a period
jsifly•3mo ago