Absolutely. But every single new operating system project falls into the trap of following all the same old patterns. It seems to be very difficult to approac

Absolutely. But every single new operating system project falls into the trap of following all the same old patterns. It seems to be very difficult to approach problems and realize that the constraints that guided all of the old design choices simply no longer exist. Today different challenges exist and people would rather perpetuate re-creating the limitations of the past and then solving those nice understood problems than they would like to solve the new problems. For instance, today we don't have text terminals. We have high-dpi displays. So why is the first thing you reach for a text buffer? Stop it. Vector-based fonts should be step zero. Raster graphics ought to come along pretty far down the line when you get to texture surfaces. We don't run with video units with basic memory-mapped framebuffers any more. Our storage also isn't seek-bound in most cases, we have RAM that can bust the limits of even old filesystem designs made for bulk storage. We have more now and just like the physicists say, More Is Different. But the next revolutionary OS will probably come along and announce their goal of POSIX compliance and people will still trick themselves into thinking its 'new'. I'd rather see an OS that realizes the things the Internet and web have taught us and integrates it. What people want is search and instant-on application functionality. They don't care if it's "an app" or its "a webpage" or whatever. They want it to work, they don't want to "install", etc. And if you can murder the browser and get back to something native and cut the eye out of every company monetizing themselves through user behavior data sales, all the better!