Developing a new OS that's on par with Windows is a huge, multibillion dollar task. And it's not even the hard part here, because when you have the new OS, ther

Developing a new OS that's on par with Windows is a huge, multibillion dollar task. And it's not even the hard part here, because when you have the new OS, there will be zero software on it - you'd need to somehow convince vendors to port their software to it. Essentially, I believe that the only body capable of doing it would be a big government (US, Chinese, or the EU as a whole)- they can say that will only run this new OS that they've developed in-house, and, by being large enough client, they'd convince some vendors to port crucial stuff (such as MS Office). Unfortunately, shittiness of current OSes and productivity/quality of life losses caused by it are not even on a radar of our politicians, so they'll never invest any money in fixing the situation. BTW, Johnatan Blow and Casey Muratori are ranting about it from time to time on Twitter and YouTube and they have some interesting takes on the subject (Casey was suggesting getting rid of OS altogether, and coming back to an Amiga-like architecture).