> They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actually start using it Is the p

> They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actually start using it Is the proposal here to replicate the 30 million lines of code of Linux? Anything short of that is going to have massive adoption problems, much like Linux did in the past, much like FreeBSD/Illumos/etc do now, due to the lack of drivers. It took so long, and devices still don't properly support Linux; there is no way another free and open source system will take off like Linux did, ever again. > failed to do so in some other domains like user-space window managers Do things like Way Cooler and COSMIC not count? I have seen Way Cooler mentioned as being used a couple times, and COSMIC gets regular coverage for its development progress.