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by throwaway914 893 days ago
I think I'm misunderstanding what this can be used for, but something I'd love to see become "perfect" is preserving a GUI application state across reboots/logins/etc. Especially with flatpak GUI apps.
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This is called image computing and Lisp/Smalltalk did it. Emacs has a form of it called undump.

I dislike it because it violates the "rule of least power". Basically, if you never have to validate your internal data, you can never tell it's corrupt.

This is going to be possible with CRIU and Wayland applications. I saw a PoC with Qt that did this.
No part of systemd FD store is gonna survive a reboot.