Comment by ASalazarMX

Windows 95 Plug and Play (now called Legacy Plug and Play, which brings a tear to my eye) was a marvelous engineering feat. If operating systems had kept improving at that pace, who knows what they'd be capable of today?

These days Operating Systems (desktop and mobile) have mostly stagnated; even open source Unix derivatives are strongly committed to backwards compatibility, and have reached an island of mostly stability.

I hope to see in the future something like Plan 9, who was an effort to reimagine what an OS could be. BeOS brought innovations, but those have become commonplace while Haiku still has growing pains.

I yearn for weird again, but I don't have the skill set and resources to design/build a weird OS. Then again, standardization is good for progress, and I much prefer that the de facto standard is something free like Linux, and not proprietary Windows or MacOS. Standards should be public.