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My crazy idea is: write software so that Flatpaks can run on Windows and macOS. Plus, make high-quality Flatpak-building templates available for as many programming languages, UI toolkits, etc. as possible.
Because everything that Flatpaks provide is OSS, making shims for Windows and macOS compatibility would be tedious, but doable.
Same with crosscompiling Flatpaks, compared to the difficulties of crosscompiling for Windows or macOS from any other OS, multiplatform Flatpaks should be doable to crosscompile.
So this would lead to a world where a very convenient way to package for Windows and macOS... is creating a Flatpak that works on Linux!