While this is the direction many are going for particular use-cases (IoT in particular), I am very much conflicted.

Yes, inconsistent updates between components have caused a couple of nights of fixing my RPM or DEB based systems in my 27 years of using Linux on desktop (but mostly when I mixed sources of packages).

But at the same time, the modern systems thinking is to decouple things to be able to update and upgrade independently. Think distributed systems like web applications. This needs a change in developing components, but once internalized, both improves and speeds up the delivery.

So with traditional Linux distributions already being a mix (small packaged upgrades, but released as a collection - a "release" or "version" of a distribution), this decidedly moves in the other direction.

How does a security fix get quickly applied here? Can one do kernel livepatching? How do you quickly update a component depended on by everything else?

Then, you don't need any other device, hence "ultimate".

Convergence, Samsung Dex, lots have tried but nothing mature yet. Well, Dex is mature but closed-source and Samsung-dependent. On the linux no-android smartphone side of things, hardware is too low-cost and the phone aspects of linux too brittle.

Aurora is just a new distro...

> Aurora is nothing more than a collection of bash scripts, containerfiles and custom programs stitched together.

That sentence appearing on the same page as "rock-solid" is not very convincing either and does not instil confidence.

It could be very effective for bringing in those who are not particularly computer literate under the claimed guarantee that a random update is unlikely to break the machine. But you would also need significant financial backing and marketing with strong brand recognition to inspire that kind of confidence.

2) Including homebrew in a Linux distro is a criminal offense normally punished by public flogging.