On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Basically what I'm wondering about is whether there's some kind of > future utopia where operating system filesystem images -- and the > process of managing and booting from them -- could be made > significantly simpler.
You can already do that. Compile a kernel with all drivers needed and it will boot without initramfs. Initramfs is still usefull in a lots of special situations. So it's not an utopia it's a real thing: we have the better from both world.