What are some esoteric and fun features you would like to see in an operating system?Not optimization crap, stuff that's truly pointless
The ability to move the taskbar
I like tag-based file systems. Unless there is some big flaw I'm not seeing, they just seem superior.
>>108182250Aren't these cleaner as a separate user database instead of system fs?
>>108181964Pinball
>>108182343no because now you need custom software to work with your tags, and your files need to be in a place the software can track.if it was built in you could use pretty much any software that supports the basic syscalls, would also be faster.
option to make everything command line basedoh wait thats linux
Files have physics in GUI. File manager responds to laptop movement and lid movement. You can flip your laptop upside down and shake it and files will fall out of your folders.
>>108181964your system runs on an interpreter and if you get an error instead of crashing it just pauses everything and shows you the faulty code while screaming at you to fix it yourself>>108185234this one is really fun
Full mouse and keyboard statistics. Including number of presses, time held down, meters traveled, etc. and achievements. The option to share your stats on social media too, of course
>>108181964Namespaces for each window like those in plan 9 from bell labs
Heuristically turn your current screen into a Worms level on the spot.
>>108185787or Lemmings
your cpu speed should constantly go down the longer your computer is on so you have to put your computer to sleep. sell meth software to bypass this
>>108181964Recycle and Trash bin are two separate things that only clear on trash day. Recycling returns a mixture of recycled files into one big file, and only the big recycled file can be thrown in the trash to remove it permanently finally.
>>108181964>OS mascot that tucks itself in when I sleep or shutdown the computer
>>108185379isnt that lispmachines?
>>108181964A shell that can dynamically reload programs so that you can inspect and change them while they're running.
>>108181964I want a desktop buddy that hangs about the screen. Like a cat or something. Needs to work in wayland which I'm thinking isn't possible?Actually it needs to be a car
>>108185787kek at the pic
The windows troubleshooter is actually useful for shit instead of just "I will turn it off and on again, well that didn't work so here contact microsoft" bullshit. Maybe a very small and 100% local ai would be good for this, though I suspect if it was programmed and trained by microcock It would just be a delete system32 speedrun anytime you asked it for help.
>>108181964I dunno, maybe a VR desktop UI, and no i don't mean what apple came up with, i mean something with 3D apps that are not games.>>108182250Well they're slightly more expensive to traverse CPU wise, i'd assume that's why they haven't really been that popular.
>>108181964non rectangular application windows
>>108187072it can if you integrate it directly into a WM, but that destroys portability
>>108186572this except you have to manually sort the recycling
>>108186349This kinda happened with older operating systems, but due to RAM fragmentationDuring MS-DOS era, the more you used the computer, the more messed the RAM would be, so you were expected to reset it from time to time
>>108185209wow a guy talking about linux for no reason. thats so linux
>>108186572recycle is emailed to china@osprovider.com and set on fire
>>108187011is it? i know next to nothing about these machines
>>108186349>>108186572>>108186942these are awesome, well done
>highlight section of text>hold ctrl or alt or whatever other hotkey>can now highlight ANOTHER section of text without breaking the first section of textWhy can't I do this? It would be immediately useful for so many people. Let me treat the highlighter tool as... a highlighter.
>>108185379>>108187050lisp can do these both I think, not that I ever used it
>>108189472i dont really know shit myself, is what the oldtimers said, this anon sais the same as me >>108190010is part of our mithos
>>108181964I watched her anime. She's so cute~ :3
>>108190341I wish I was a magical girl and magia baiser did lewd things to me
>>108181964Neurointerface to translate my thoughts into actions.
>>108181964Support for multiple cursors/keyboards/focuses.2d/3d graphics in terminalBeing able to detach windows from screens in VR/AR modeGraphical/node based audio system with virtual cables and filters/transformers/sinks
>>108181964I've always wished the snipping tool option was embedded in the right click menu. Like right click, snip, then drag and select an area with with mouse like when you multi select and it just automatically snips and puts it to a clipboard window. That and a right click to print screen or screenshot your screen option would be amazing. If you dont have a keyboard with a print screen key it's ridiculously annoying to impossible to print screen on most machines. It's rarely been a drastic problem for me, but there's been many, many times when it's been an annoyance.>>108182206If we're going there Windows 10 & 11 both have for some reason broken the ability to Ctrl + Click and Shift + Click to multi-select and the jeets have taken to just telling everyone they don't need to multi-select so an OS that does that flawlessly would be great
>>108182250Oh, that would be awesome. There's been so many times I've wished I had that. Fire really specific use cases, too where I want to apply a tag that only makes sense to me like a friend's name because I want to be and to randomly find a file of it ever comes up in a drunk conversation with a specific person but I don't want to have a folder dedicated to it as just one example. Another is being and to toggle the ability to sort files and folders alphabetically while intermixed in the same window. For example there's a thread on here where an Anon dumps hundreds of high res pieces of classical oil paintings with the artists names followed by the painting title in the file name in a semi-standardized format. I have an extension that allows me to mass download all the images from the thread with their original file names, and I figured out how to export the file names into an Excel file, clean it up, then transform it into a .bat file to automatically create a list of corresponding folders that match the file names but it's still thousands of files and like a mile of scrolling to find each folder. If I could just organize them all so it was listed as file: "Aaron A. Aaronson" followed by all the files that start with Aaron A. Aaronson, then the next folder in alphabetical order followed by the corresponding files it would be a lot easier to just multi-select all the files and drag them to their corresponding folder until they're all organized and I just have a few outlier stragglers to deal with but so far I've only found a third party file explorer that I have to keep resetting the free trial for and has a less than desirable UI so my folder is just a mess of uncategorized files that are impossible to sift through.
>>108184839Snake would be fun, too
>>108186942The boot up DOS language displayed a Unicode approximation of Mario running through World 1:1 and reaching the flag by the time Boot Up is finished.
>>108187011>>108189472Kind of. When you run into an exception in Common Lisp, it doesn't just throw you to the top-level or whoever catches it first and leave you hanging. If nobody handles it, the exception brings you into an interactive debugger with the stack and context still there and gives you a few "restarts" depending on the exception, the typical ones being step/continue/retry/abort, or it could be something user defined like return 1 or 0 in a divide by zero exception, or supply your own return value.It also shows you the stack trace, the variable environment, and you still have the REPL to dynamically change anything before restarting.
