Quote Originally Posted by e8johan View Post
Something that would be fun to do would be to create a busybox-based minimal distro booting from an initramfs (i.e. integrated into the kernel). Then you would use Qt for Embedded Linux for your application - avoiding X11 and other sources of complexity and added boot time.

That is how you build embedded systems, but usually not how you build for desktop computers.
Seems a bit complex for me, but sounds good.