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@akkartik Just a random question that represents my own viewpoint: Why try to make your OS that you were writing have wide compatibility? I understand that it can be nice for other people to be able to enjoy and appreciate your work, but if it were me, I'd be focused purely on writing a system that was compatible with my own hardware.
Obviously, this kind of approach would limit adoption and outside contributions to a software ecosystem, but...so what? I guess what I'm saying is that everyone should have their own personal TempleOS if they're capable of doing such a thing. :)
Feb 02 · 7 weeks ago
Very interesting question. Probably just boils down to my own motivations. I never chased mass adoption but I also wasn't comfortable entirely foreclosing on the possibility. On the other hand, the hardware I built for was indeed precisely the hardware I had. So it didn't feel like the two were in tension.
Getting Sick of Linux — My pretty minimal installation of Xubuntu, running with dwm (no desktop or related crap) is beginning to feel like a lead weight. It is plenty fast on the old i5 ThinkPad (I've been scaling down - a couple of years I only used i7's), and I have few complaints, really. But I feel like I am drowning. It is running like 200 processes, without me doing anything taxing right now. I have no clue what 95% of these are. Some are downright scary sounding: idle_inject,...