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The equivalent for Haiku OS, without decades of legacy, conflicts, changes, history, backwards compatibility:

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/filesystem-layout...

This shows you what Linux could be if it were redesigned from scratch without layers of patches/fixes. Nice, simple, and due to dynamically mounted read only package system, read-only actually means read only.

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With a proper redesign from scratch, it could have the same success and market share Haiku has.

Right, without back-compat, any system trying to gain marketshare is domed.

...but Linux has chroot, symlinks, hardlinks, and everything in-between - it's entirely possible to design a Linux environment where the clutter and warts of back-compat are only visible to the users and programs that need to see them.

I’d point in the direction of Nixpkgs’s buildFHSEnv, but unfortunately Nixpkgs has its own layers and layers of cruft (being more than fifteen years old by now).

GoboLinux attempts to reinvent the filesystem organisation for Linux while maintaining full compatibility.

With success?

> "The home folder - /boot/home/"

What relationship is there between home folders and the boot process?

It says it's the boot volume, not necessarily the equivalent I guess of /boot on Linux where it's exclusively for boot related things.

You may want to email HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) as it seems you're shadow banned.

These are folders on the boot drive, which is always mounted on /boot?

This seems like a bad choice. The home directory need not be on the boot drive. In fact, a lot of people put it on a separate drive, or at least a separate partition.

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