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my Google Fu has failed me but isn't there a simple way to compile rust or go to a Linux os that boots to a gui? lots of embedded talks about tiny hardware and framebuffers etc. I can throw hardware around, it's UX/dx I just want ssh in the background and a UI Infront.

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Yesn't, there aren't many tools for it. The closest you will get for a generic GUI app is various window managers/ DM for Wayland/ X11 that run in a "kiosk mode" + autologin. This way the OS (is supposed to) just boots and opens your app in effectively Fullscreen.

That did help me find https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/wiki initially I'm here there's other going down that path. Thanks

You can do that with Slint (https://slint.dev) and its linuxkms backend. No need for a xorg server or wayland compositor, just run the application made with Slint from the init script.

Beware Slint's license, it's either proprietary or GPLv3, or whatever this kooky thing is that doesn't allow mobile apps: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/LICENSES/Licen...

That license explicitly allow mobile apps:

> mobile phones are not considered to be Embedded Systems.

What part of this covers mobile apps:

> SixtyFPS hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, make available, modify, display, perform, distribute the Software as part of a Desktop or Web Application.

I think the closest to this is https://doc.qt.io/Boot2Qt/.

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