These questions are the number two most important questions to ask, in software. The sanity/insanity part is not so relevant, but it is necessary to point out that, pretty much a huge percentage of software any of us uses on a daily basis, started off with someone having a random insanity, answering those two questions with a working binary, and thus setting the idea towards becoming normal and thus sane.

Soon enough, WASM may just well be the #1 platform upon which to run a Linux on a Desktop ..

I can think of a few uses quite easily:

- Testing a distro or specific software without downloading it

- Educational use (teaching Linux basics on Chromebooks etc)

- Bypassing restrictions on installing certain software

Because someone can... While I don't see a practical use myself, beyond educational or experimental, that doesn't mean nobody else could, should or would.

In the end, it's kinda cool.

I don’t think it’s that big a stretch of the imagination to see how this could be used in smaller pieces than the entirety of Linux.