I'd be interested to know about best current environments for usable computers.
I suspect it's going to be a BSD or Linux kernel with a tweaked OpenBox (or similar) environment with a variety of web browsers and plugins.
It is a great shame that almost everyone has a powerful computer in their pocket, but that they are unable to use the power of those computers because they are locked into a variety of closed systems.
> I suspect it's going to be a BSD or Linux kernel with a tweaked OpenBox (or similar) environment with a variety of web browsers and plugins.
That sounds sort-of-but-not-quite like ChromiumOS. Actually, it puts me in mind of how CoreOS would work if it were installed on a PC and each Docker container was a desktop environment: one container for Chromium in OS mode, one for Firefox, one for GNOME, one for XMBC, one for the SteamOS shell, one for QEMU-KVM running Windows Embedded...
I suspect it's going to be a BSD or Linux kernel with a tweaked OpenBox (or similar) environment with a variety of web browsers and plugins.
It is a great shame that almost everyone has a powerful computer in their pocket, but that they are unable to use the power of those computers because they are locked into a variety of closed systems.