feels like there’s never been a better time for a new desktop OS to emerge…
there’s less platform lock-in than ever, thanks to web apps (and maybe Wine or VMs)
macOS isn’t so great anymore, windows is full of ads
what would it look like to design an OS for the web era? for the ai era?
three things i’d try:
1. rethink the interface — there’s no way that current OS designs that’ve lasted 25 years are the end state of computing (this was the thesis of arc, btw!)
2. treat web apps and native apps the same. treat web docs and native docs the same.
3. new horizontal primitives. when you stop to think about it, it’s *so cool* that copy and paste actually works across every app. what’s the next clipboard, or the next url?
> it’s *so cool* that copy and paste actually works across every app. what’s the next clipboard, or the next url?
I would like a timeline of actions taken on different apps, the ability to revert some of them like we do with Ctrl+Z and to turn a bunch of them into a script that can be run against new documents.
