For a desktop yes. You can dock it and forget that it's not a regular Linux desktop. Especially if it means Python and JS, you don't need much power for that.
For a laptop not so much, because you'll need to bring screen+keyboard+mouse and everything to plug them so the portability aspect seriously suffers.
I'm not sure what "the Linux community" really means but I would bet that pure open source Android based on AOSP are more popular than the non-Android Linux mobile OS combined.
It's still a lot of work, for what value compared to an OS based on AOSP?
That's because in the 80's you had to know computers to use them, and most people never touched them. Only geeks like you and me.
Now everyone uses a computer (at least the screen-only computer in their pocket) without knowing anything about it.
It doesn't mean there are less people who really know how computers work. Just that now even clueless people use them.
You don't need man, just type the command with no arguments and you'll get the help message.
I agree that GUI are better at discoverability.
However once you're up to speed with CLI, it becomes much simpler and faster. While a GUI will still be more steps even after you become expert at using that GUI.
It's just because it's the most used in this case
Simple example: installing stuff. Much faster and simpler to type "install foo" in cli than open a gui, searching for it, finding the right one, clicking install.
Same for updating: it takes me 2s to type the command to update all packages, that's less than the time I need to move my mouse to the icon of the package manager.
The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won't work.
Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it's not worth it
OK, it's 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.
And you might say "let's have trains run at least once per hour then". That means running empty trains all day, not sure it's the best way to spend public money.
It's a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid...
This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.