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Try komorebic on windows — great tiling.

On the note of all the linux marketing, Jonathan Blow summed it up best:

> The people who would historically be excited about a new operating system can't do that any more, because everyone is too helpless to even conceive of a new OS.

> So they have to get excited about a mildly different arrangement of bloatware from That OS From 35 Years Ago.

> But as long as you give it a Cool Name, everything is good.

> Elon: makes car company (when everyone thinks electric cars will never work), rocket company (the rockets land themselves), Neuromancer brain chip company.

> Computer Nerds: Noooooo I can’t make an OS because drivers and adoption!!!!1

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And from another thread

> It would be nice to have an OS with a proper job system as a core component. No legacy threads or mutexes at all. Everything is designed to be fine-grained parallel for modern 16+ core CPUs.

> For starters, every API is asynchronous command buffers with an optional slower/easier noob API on top. There are a lot of things that could tremendously simplify userspace as well.

> It would be nice to have an OS with a proper job system as a core component. No legacy threads or mutexes at all. Everything is designed to be fine-grained parallel for modern 16+ core CPUs.

I’m the furthest thing from an expert on this so I could be really missing important details, but isn’t this the idea behind Grand Central Dispatch from like 2009?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch

I saw J. Blow's post. I'd love to see a new OS. It's easy to get on the internet and provide armchair criticism, especially when you're as storied as he is, but how does that get funded? Who actually makes it happen? It is a fun thought experiment, but I fear for a world where some VC-backed startup creates a new pit to fall in.

If I've learned any lessons in building software, it's that you very often have to strangle the old to make way for the new, but you get stuck in hell if you try to do it all at once. Getting Linux adoption up and general support improved, and then leveraging it as a WSL-esque bootstrap into a new OS might be a way.

On Komorebi, put simply, as an OSS maintainer I think me and that maintainer see the world a very different way. Would use it if not for the approach to licensing - does look cool!

Okay, but _you literally can't do it_. Google couldn't do it (Fuchsia is dead). Blow can't do it. Ripping the bottom layer out of the stack the world is built on is just too hard.

The Register called this in 2007 [1] when they claimed that the Psion 5MX was the last computer to be fully developed by one team (hardware, software and design).

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/26/psion_special/

Someone is going to make a new OS based around LLMs soon. It might end up being mobile but desktop could work. Voice and tool calling are close to being good enough.

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