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Comment by TacticalCoder

1 day ago

> What even is an OS now?

It's the thing that runs your AI agent, that runs your AI pocket bot (AIBI looks cute btw), that runs the software doing the training of AI models, that runs the datacenters doing the inference, etc.

There's still data. There are still bits moving. Filesystems and networking aren't going anywhere.

In a charitable reading the title is something like "what is even a desktop OS now?" or "what is even a consumer OS now?".

As for the new project, I've got one bet: there's Linux involved to host it.

Linux is an OS.

P.S: as a sidenote the entire "users don't install apps anymore" was already true to some extent. A shitload of users are totally fine with an OS that runs a browser and that's it. And they're fully operational. And we still all know what an OS is, even for, say, a Chromebook. Heck, I'm not even sure "installing apps" as ever been, except during the first install of the OS, what an OS was ever about.