I did a video on something like this that got some traction on reddit, where some really nice, knowledgable folks told me about BeOS and the original vision for

I did a video on something like this that got some traction on reddit, where some really nice, knowledgable folks told me about BeOS and the original vision for Longhorn. What I think both of them are missing is a really simple GUI that makes it so that the average user doesn't need to worry about the metadata layer, which seemed a little too present in those efforts. I'd posted it on HN at the time, but it never really picked up any steam. Here it is again, if you're interested: https://vimeo.com/39284250 https://vimeo.com/39284250