MercuryOS – A speculative reimagining of current operating system paradigms

https://www.mercuryos.com/

by samtheDamned • 5 years ago

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rbanffy4• 5 years ago

Because two of the three most used OSs these days have made the GUI an integral part of their design, we seem to confuse what is in front of the user with the OS, whether it's a workflow application, a program launcher or a command prompt.

The UI in my car's entertainment system is not part of the QNX operating system that runs the devices (and talks to the main instrument panel to tell things like the current speed limit or the song that just started to play).

This is good UI/UX work, but it's a workflow app, a personal information manager and it really doesn't (or shouldn't) care too much about the unseen software and hardware that's supporting it - that's precisely the job of the OS.

pjmlp3• 5 years ago

Because it is an UNIX clone, almost all of them quite bad at any kind of UI/UX.

All major desktop OSes that people actually miss, have had a full stack experience for users and developers alike.

rbanffy4• 5 years ago

Because it is an UNIX clone, almost all of them quite bad at any kind of UI/UX.

That's because the GUI is not a part of the OS. The GUI is not an integral part of macOS - it's just that Apple sells one bundled, the same way that Canonical and Red Hat bundle Gnome. We had a number of other OSs that made a similar decision, on Lisp machines, Smalltalk workstations, Apollo's DomainOS, and a couple others I can't remember. None of these survived to this day.

estranhosidade• 5 years ago

Too many jargons and catch phrases and few precise definitions/example on how this OS or concept would actually work :\

MercuryOS – A speculative reimagining of current operating system paradigms

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