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Over-automation of the OS is what lead to this big mess we see. Truly simple interfaces and methods are bulldozed and replaced by massive Rube Goldberg contrapt
by MisterTea 6y ago
Over-automation of the OS is what lead to this big mess we see. Truly simple interfaces and methods are bulldozed and replaced by massive Rube Goldberg contraptions which are supposed to make it "easy" for joe sixpack with a few clicks or taps. The reality is even johnny electron, genius programmer, now has hard time navigating the hellish maze of interconnected binaries full of black-box state when it inevitably collapses under its own weight.
Delete it all.
- lisper 6y agoAnd replace it with what? Linux and Windows are not much better in this regard.
- phendrenad2 6y agoIf only it were possible to create a new OS. But sadly, any competitor to Linux would face an uphill battle from people asking the honest question "why not use Linux?"
- lisper 6y agoI actually think it would be possible to use Linux as a core and build a reasonable userland on top of it, just like MacOS did with Darwin. But it would be a boatload of work.
- pjmlp 6y agoCough, Android and ChromeOS.
- lisper 6y agoYeah, like those. But my dream is an OS that is usable for non-hackers while preserving the Linux ethos of leaving the user with ownership of their machine. That does not currently exist AFAIK.
- pjmlp 6y agoI don't see that ever happening, because too many just keep rebooting UNIX instead, as seen by all GNU/Linux based phone attempts. And the companies that have the power to drive it into newer territories, like Google, don't care about providing yet another UNIX clone, just reducing the kernel development costs. Had Inferno been a success, I bet we would also see blog posts on how to dump Limbo, replace ACME with vim, and have the GNU userland on it.
- lisper 6y ago> I don't see that ever happening I don't either. But a boy can dream.
- pjmlp 6y agoBecause cloning UNIX is more than done already.