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Comment by bitwize

17 hours ago

Indeed.

AmigaOS was the pinnacle of personal computing OS design. Everything since has been a regression. Fite me.

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draven  13 hours ago

What about BeOS ?

  • dmacvicar  10 hours ago

    Not very likely, what if the BeOS API emerged as "the standard" on Linux?

    https://cosmoe.org/

    It would not solve the ABI problem, but it would give at least an opinionated end to end API that was at some point the official API of an OS. It has some praise on its design too.

    • draven  6 hours ago

      It was more about everything since the Amiga being a regression. BeOS was sometimes called a successor (in spirit) to the Amiga : a fun, snappy, single-user OS.

      I regularly install HaikuOS in a VM to test it and I think I could probably use it as a daily driver, but ported software often does not feel completely right.