For your point 2, I had to stop them from throwing that out of the window all the way back circa 2.3. The key problem with desktop Linux is the entire distro c

For your point 2, I had to stop them from throwing that out of the window all the way back circa 2.3. The key problem with desktop Linux is the entire distro concept. Just have the kernel, some services (the android ones like binder, surfaceflinger etc) and go from there. Iirc that isn’t far from what firefox os was, only they insisted on everything being browser based. The Java API on android is thinner than it looks, and contains most of the serious problems, such as the entire UI stack. Now that Swift has grown static Linux support that would probably make most sense as the first class target for API consumption.