In The Last Episode In Part 2, I laid out the battlefield. Picking a donor OS wasn’t about finding something perfect—it was about finding something usable, malleable, and not already tied down by assumptions or baggage. I wanted a clean slate without having to start at BIOS and claw my way up. So, I defined…
In The Last Episode I kicked off this journey with a simple realization: I need a workstation OS that doesn’t suck. More than that—I need one that actually works for me. I laid out the problem: most OS options out there are either too bloated, too fragile, or just don’t align with how I want…
My Problem More specifically, I need a workstation OS. Even more specifically, I need a workstation OS that has a pleasant desktop user experience. Hmmm…. Do I really need it, or do I just WANT it? At this point, the difference between “need” and “want” are negligible. At the end of the day, I think…
The Potentials It’s no secret that X11 is decades past the point where it should have been replaced. Quite frankly, current technology now has extremely little in common with the technology that the X protocol was created for. However, the fact of the matter is that an extremely large ecosystem has grown around X11, so…
The General Problem From my perspective, one of the most difficult tasks for OS developers is maintaining current hardware support. New hardware seems to come out almost every quarter, rendering current hardware obsolete almost as soon as it’s purchased. It’s plainly obvious that new operating systems don’t have much of a chance of ever staying…
