Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System Experience

• Traditional filesystems are hierarchical, slow to search, and don't natively store all of the metadata we need.
• All IPC. There are too many ways for programs to communicate. Pipes, sockets, shared memory, RPC, kernel calls, drag and drop, cut and paste.
• Command line interfaces don't fit modern application usage. We simply can't do everything with pure text. I'd like to pipe my Skype call to a video analysis service while I'm chatting, but I can't really run a video stream through awk or sed.
• Window Managers on traditional desktops are not context or content aware, and they are not controlable by other programs.
• Native Applications are heavy weight, take a long time to develop and very siloed.

So what does that leave us with? Not much. We have a kernel and device drivers. We can keep a reliable filesystem but it won't be exposed to end users or applications.