Ikey's last foray into distro-building also left same impression on me.
> without deeply considering more practical architectural decisions like isolating system vs. userland, configuration management, or manageability
I dunno, FWIW, Solus was very well regarded in UX for a while. It had the best steam integration, and the whole thing felt fairly well thought out for something built and maintained by half dozen people.
> If you're going to create a distro, at least have a use-case justification for it
That is unfair. The developers felt there is a gap between fully imperative state-modifying mudball and fully declarative purity-land, which is true, and decided to try their hand at it. How well they did is yet to be seen.
