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Gobolinux enters the room.
Gobo's been around and doing its alternative thing, successfully, for 20 years, so no. It's not a problem.
Oh I remember trying this, I should give it another go!
Eh. I didn't personally find that the upheaval added much, and it interfered with my muscle memory working with FHS systems... which are everything else. It didn't add, like, BeOS-levels of drastic benefit in exchange for being so divergent. And it obviously never caught on anywhere else.
Just my experience.