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One thing I've been thinking about is if something like IPFS was the filesystem. Forget about performance or whether it even works because IPFS sucks on both, just assume it works and performs decently.
You could have all the programs "installed" all the time, their executables always listed in the /bin directory and so on, but not actually on disk. Then when you run the program and its executable isn't on disk, the filesystem fetches it from the internet and stores it in the disk completely transparently. No package manager. No installation. As long as you have free space, the program and its data files aren't redownloaded. When you need space, the filesystem garbage collects less used files. All programs integrate with this, your music library is just a bunch of pointers to FLACs in our version of IPFS, and as always, if you have space on disk, it plays from disk, if you don't, it fetches it from the internet and puts it in your disk where it stays until a future lack of space leads to the files being garbage collected; your web browser fetches everything from IPFS, OS upgrades just change the hashes the system's files point to and handle migrating the programs that are currently on memory like MINIX. Everything is safe because files are addressed by hash. You can even have personal storage, just encrypt files before publishing them,