I spent a while researching and looking into the whole "run in RAM" idea and eventually concluded that preserving the flash write cycles needs to be baked into applications.
If you run in RAM and flush periodically, you're probably gonna lose data at some point, what we actually need is software that doesn't rewrite a 6MB every minute for no reason, but still saves user data when it should.
I'm not a fan of nonstandard hierarchies, lack of systemd, or running as root, but I do like how they focus on being batteries included and very GUI focused.
Not that root is actually a security issue, because everything important is under your user most likely, but it makes it easier to make mistakes that you then can't fix because the system is broken.
If you run in RAM and flush periodically, you're probably gonna lose data at some point, what we actually need is software that doesn't rewrite a 6MB every minute for no reason, but still saves user data when it should.
I'm not a fan of nonstandard hierarchies, lack of systemd, or running as root, but I do like how they focus on being batteries included and very GUI focused.
Not that root is actually a security issue, because everything important is under your user most likely, but it makes it easier to make mistakes that you then can't fix because the system is broken.