>>108362831
Creating a new desktop operating system is fucking impossible in the 21st century unironically, all the current OSes simply got grandfathered in, you can't do it nowadays.

>>108362831
your options are: windows or *nix variant

>>108362933

There has never been more software engineers. I would estimate the size of usable, top tier low level engineers out there to be at least 10x what it was in 1995. It was literally a hobby industry back then.

It's simply a lack of will. No one wants to go back to the basics, but with modern resources, and redo this thing from scratch. But I'm saying the first rich guy with a startup who does it could btfo Microsoft right this moment because they have hung the noose around themselves and have no way out of it. Too huge, bureaucratic, jeeted, and profit hungry.

>>108362981
The problem is that nobody will use it because no software would run on it. And since nobody will use it, nobody will also write software for it. Even if the OS devs attempt to port Chromium to their OS themselves, it will be very difficult probably.

>>108362981
>I would estimate the size of usable, top tier low level engineers out there to be at least 10x what it was in 1995
Each engineer is roughly 1/10th as competent though

>>108363029

Yes, it's an investment, and it would take time to increase usage, but the alpha and revenue potential is incredibly large. To get it off the ground you don't exactly need to develop much. Clone the basics of the Mac/Windows ootb library. To get it off the ground it isn't as much as you think, which is why little shit shops were doing it in the 80's with far, FAR fewer resources. Think about the spit and glue foundation both Windows and Mac are built on.

>>108363029
>>108363065

You could even bring in some other big bad tech giant to help sponsor/associate with. Someone like Google or Amazon who has a bone to pick with Microsoft/Apple, or maybe one of 2nd tier players like Meta, Zuck is always desperate to throw money and resources at something that could diversify his gay social media portfolio.

>>108363065
you ARE aware of how much shit's advanced since the 80s, right?

>>108362831
If anyone were ever going to do this, they would have done it to Android ten years ago.

Creating a new OS would entail writing device drivers for all hardware in existence.
Good luck with that.

>>108362933
Not true. It's just that all the programmers who could pull it off are over 45 and got forced out of the industry for being White.

If anyone is going to create a new OS, they would simply take the latest LTS release of the Linux kernel, put all the GNU userland on it in its entirety, add DKMS, then forget about systemd, Wayland, PipeWire, PulseAudio and all the other Freedesktop shit and write it all from scratch as proprietary software without modularity in mind. Most likely the proprietary software components won't even use the Unix filesystem hierarchy and the devs would collocate their own filesystem hierarchy in the root dir, like /System, /Programs, etc., and the default GUI file manager would simply be hardcoded to hide /usr, /etc, and other Unix dirs in which GNU and Linux stuff resides from the user. Kind of like macOS.

>>108362831
rip pankakke

>>108363620
congratulations, you recreated macos

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>>108362831
>Creating a new OS
>for Anonymous
>to sell for $0
>to give more privacy for end-users
>and collect nothing of value or financial gain

>>108363758
Well you can call it a new OS at least, given that none of the standard GNU/Linux GUI programs would run because of the lack of Xorg/Wayland compositor.

>>108362831
I've heard of a promising looking project called reactOS that's in development. Things are looking up, it's probably going to be released around 2030 at this rate.