Star OSNews Asks: What Would Make Your Perfect OS?
Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:05 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y There's no right way to do it, only ideas that are better than others in certain situations. But if you had the opportunity to head up the design of a new OS, one to Put Things Right, one that could be radical enough to varnish out those UI/X bumps that have clung on for years, but practical enough to be used every day, what would you design? How would you handle application management? What about file types and compatibility? Where would you cherry pick the best bits from other OSes and where would you throw away tradition? I've tackled this challenge for myself and present (an unfinished idea): KrocOS (warning: HTML5 site, will display without CSS in IE/older browsers). OSnews Asks: What would make your perfect OS?
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nt_jerkface
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2009-08-26

I agree completely. It's become kindof a motto for the Linux Hater's Club around here: "X Is Old, X Is Bad, X Is the Problem!" It's basically just a sizable group of people saying the same thing over and over again, and hoping that having it endlessly and oft-repeated makes it meaningful. X isn't perfect, but it's improving, and it's becoming pretty damned good.


So I guess Apple and Google are in the X hater's club too, right? Thom is in there too lol. You must be pretty deluded to believe that all this hatred is baseless or exaggerated.

X was built with poor design descisions that cannot be blamed on the typical excuse of buggy video drivers. There are plenty of cases of X crashing that show this.

Here is my favorite:
X crashes when mouse is unplugged:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=496059

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