Snapz

Install an app that monitors their usage (with consent of course). Run for a week or month. Justify with their own data. “You only actually do these 4 things. Let’s look at each of these good replacements for them” One at a time, gated. If 1 works, we move to 2, etc. When all done conversation is you like these 4 now, they all run on Linux, let’s backup all your files and switch to Linux. You’ll have all your programs, and the files you need. And we’ll start with a skin closest to macOS look and feel.

You seem in good spirits, so not assuming you are a troll, but you realize that the 10 minute estimate instantly doubles because that’s both on and off for each panel. And the people who estimate work at scale never actually do the work, so add at least 5 mins per panel and multiple that by thousands per stretch of track to be regularly maintained.

And all of this ignoring that you now have an order of magnitude more potential failure points for both the panels, the tracks and the trains riding them. All as you assume that every single bolt, bracket and gasket will be properly reinstalled while workers do this mind numbing, repetitive task for days and weeks on end.

As a fun side benefit, the trains of course cannot run during this constant maintenance period.

You know what really effectively ends the the most painful forms of cancer… Death.

Be careful blindly submitting to headlines or titles of papers. Some get tunnel vision on solving one problem, their problem, while ignoring other problems (not my problems) or creating new sub issues from their “solutions”. As others point out, significant problems do still exist here.

Also, you were maybe reading about solar roadways, which would be different than this implementation.