Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System Experience
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Modern desktop operating systems are bloated, slow, and layered with legacy cruft that still functions only thanks to Moore's Law. Innovation in desktop operating systems stopped about 15 years ago and the major players are unlikely to heavily invest in them again. We can and should start over from scratch, learning the lessons of the past.
-This idea was sourced from a blog post and used with permission from its original creator, Josh Marinacci -
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Windows (improvement)
In our new OS every window is tab dockable. Or side dockable. Or something else. The apps don't care. We have a lot of freedom to explore here.
The old MacOS 8 had a form of tabbed windows, at least for Finder windows, where you could dock them at the bottom of the screen for easy access. Another cool thing that was left behind in the transition to Mac OS X
In the screenshot below the user is lifting the edge of a window up to see what's underneath. That's super cool!
This is an example from Ametista: a mini-toolkit for exploring new window management techniques, a research paper by Nicolas Roussel.
Since the system fully controls the environment of all apps, it could enforce security restrictions and show that to the user. A trusted system app could have a green border. A new app downloaded from the internet would have a red border. An app with an unknown origin could have a black border, or just not be shown at all. Many kinds of spoofing attacks become impossible.
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