"Can we make a friendly Libre Desktop operating system with focus on simplicity, minimalist elegance, and usability?" The author mentions "Decoupling of the ha

"Can we make a friendly Libre Desktop operating system with focus on simplicity, minimalist elegance, and usability?" The author mentions "Decoupling of the hardware from the OS and of the OS from the applications" I've been fooling around with Raspberry Pis, and like the idea of bare metal programming. Unfortunately, it isn't so easy, because something like USB requires a software stack. How much better it would be if all the hardware was memory-mapped! Then we wouldn't need an OS at all if we didn't want one. So, I'm still waiting for Raspberry Pis to be what they should have been in the first place. Pi's seem to be going the wrong way simplicity-wise. Maybe one day someone will come up with a RISC-V machine that satisfies this niche. Such a machine would be many many years away, though.