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Having had a decent go at all three major OSes (windows, osx and Linux) in the past few years, I've found all of them to have a whole bunch of annoyances that stop me being able to do what I want, how I want it.



Absolutely. I've been f/t on each for varying amounts of time over the years, and have found each wanting. There really is no good desktop OS in 2018. I have found OS X the best for my purposes, but it exclusively runs on hardware that doesn't interest me, and only gets worse over time.


Definitely. It's more a matter of choosing the one that sucks the least for your needs than anything else. And since they all seem to be drifting farther and farther away from what I actually want in a personal computer I've started entertaining the idea of making my own (not a new kernel, just most of the stuff on top of it, a new "operating environment"). But it's a ton of work and I'm not really qualified to do most of it, plus I have other projects. It would be great if there was a community with a similar conception I could work with, but I haven't found one yet.


forum.osdev.org wiki.osdev.org


Not quite. Those are the kind of people who would write their own kernel for fun. The kind of community I'm looking for would be focused on building a practical personal computing platform.




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