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Oh boy I’d like to play with something new and exciting like this and was sad to hear it’s just a design mock-up/idea. The OS space seems to have been quite sta
by daniel_iversen 3y ago
Oh boy I’d like to play with something new and exciting like this and was sad to hear it’s just a design mock-up/idea. The OS space seems to have been quite stale for a decade or two, is there anything super exciting and different out there from a UX perspective? Remember installing Linux in the late 90s or rooting Windows phones and installing whatever latest Android OS was available in the early days of iOS and Android, and that was always quite thrilling.
- smoldesu 3y agoHave you looked into Sailfish? https://sailfishos.org/ https://sailfishos.org/ I'm not affiliated (nor have I actually used it) but it looks like an interesting alternative approach to phone UX, and one that you can actually use! I'd be interested to hear any stories HNers have with it.
- vivekv 3y agoSays legal for use only in Europe
- ativzzz 3y agoThe other hard part besides hardware is that an OS is useless without useful apps (or at least a browser) so the OS dev also has to recreate the entire suite of browser/email client/word processing, etc etc which now requires even more effort, or some kind of window/linux compatibility layer, but in that case you might as well just spin off another Linux distro