OSTwister

I've been using this for a few days - primarily the file manager. I'm at a loss for words to describe it. The interface is a mess of buttons. There is no drag and drop (a dock would be nice, to put things temporarily). You have to select source and target before you choose your operating, which can get cumbersome.

It ought to be rubbish, but it's just-about the best piece of software I've ever used! I have barely tried to use a conventional file manager or the command line (for file management) since I installed it.

It is a huge improvement on the conventional file manager, and there is so much room for improvement still!

Very like Mercurial eh? I wonder if it'd be worth someone's while to pick it up & maintain it.

Undo is good, but I can't help but chuckle at the thought of "Whoops! He's not really my boyfriend" going out to 500 acquaintances 20 seconds after the opposite statement.

Rc shell right now, although I don't think there's much left to learn. Certainly far less than Bourne shell. Go, Lisp, and ARM assembler are vying for my attention next.

Go offers the most interesting possibilities but also looks the strangest to me. Lisp I'd be re-learning and expanding on my knowledge. ARM assembler for purposes of porting things but also I can't quite resist the low-level.

If I understand git right, it's designed to allow different front ends - the "porcelain." I wonder if an alternative "porcelain" could be made which would be more intuitive to some?

You know, having taking a look at FSN's home page I really don't think I would want file sizes represented in either of the ways it does.

I've been using Eagle Mode for about a week - a zoomable UI - and while it's ugly I really can't praise the file manager highly enough. It is a fantastic improvement over the best conventional file managers, but representing file size visually would ruin it. http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

I would like to agree... I can't quite agree with all points

Permanent delete: Believe me, you can fill up anything. Space exists to be filled. Junk multiplies.... XD That said I am looking into deduplicating WORM storage for my own use.

Disk full / charged more: Not an appropriate business model for many customers. It's hard enough to keep a cap on your phone bill where you only have to worry about 2 or 3 factors (time used, time of day, distance). On a disk, god knows what wants to store temporary and permanent files, it's not immediately clear how much space each picture or movie or song file will take...

I think it's nice for a UI to show you things in a way you can respond to on an almost instinctive level, but will it help with UI designers who just don't think?

You almost make it sound like it would only show you it's going out to 500 friends _after_ you clicked the button. :D