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Where to go now since Linux is mainstream
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TempelOS?
plan9
If it was so good then where is plan10 though
Because it's so good there is no need for plan10
This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.
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Haiku OS
I remember the BeOS guys doing a demo at my LUG before they release the BeBox (or whatever their computer was called). That OS was so ahead of it's time. There were about 200 of us just gasping at how good it was and what it could do. Actually using BeOS on a PowerPC ended up being an on ramp for me to Linux. By the time Haiku came out, life was too busy and I was too entrenched in Linux. Maybe now that I'm retired I'll take a look at it.
My college roommate got an install CD of the first version that ran on x86, maybe 3.0? I tried it on my computer and became an instant convert. It was so astoundingly much faster and stable than Windows was on the same hardware, had a decent free IDE, and could play MP3s without skipping while compiling, browsing the internet, and spinning a GL Teapot all at once on a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM. Nothing else even came close for a desktop experience. I bought a copy for myself and every version that came out.
Iโve been daily driving Linux for a long time now, but I still look back and wonder what could have been. There are still things to this day that BeOS did better and faster in the โ90s on single core sub GHz machines with spinning rust than Linux, MacOS or Windows can on top end modern hardware.
NixOS is the new Arch. I'm surprised nobody here has said they use it yet.
NixOS user here; please do not recommend NixOS.
I don't use NixOS btw.
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Ive noticed this, arch almost just works but my nixOS friends are always complaining about something
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Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.
Run exclusively self made programs
Need a calculator? Program one and compile it
Well, within reason
First you need to create a compiler
As it turns out programming a calculator can be quite complex: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
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Open source Windows obviously. https://reactos.org/
All these recent Windows to Linux converts, whining about how Linux should be more like Windows, should be going to ReactOS. They want open source Windows, not open source Unix.
Now you have to move on to obscure open source hardware. Linux phone and/or a RISC-V computer
TempleOS or make your own
GNU Guix with the GNU Hurd kernel? A full GNU/GNU system, or GNU + GNU.
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There's always LFS.
But if you really wanna bail on tux, Haiku, Plan 9, or ReactOs
You get an ARM or RISCV machine to run Linux on obviously. Then you shit on the plebs with their legacy systems.
You also need PostmarketOS on your phone of course.
Debian Hurd?
Stick to Linux but run on risc-v.
Obvious answer is something like switching to something like BSD, but the less obvious answer is to look into switching to AROS ( AROS Research Operating System, formerly Amiga Research Operating System ).
BSD definitely is a lot more complete compared to AROS, so using AROS will make you superior if you can find a way to keep your workflow as much as possible while making it your daily driver.
Warning: AROS is, as far as I know, not fully open source, but that can be fixed with some reverse engineering that's well above my pay grade.
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edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD
Be sure to tell the FreeBSD guys that you use NetBSD, the only real BSD.
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Year of the HURD desktop will be glorious
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If you remove the M from BDSM, you've cut out all the Arch users anyway. So yeah, BSD makes sense.
Haha. But un-ironically, Rasbian OS (Debian build for Raspberry Pi); because open hardware is the next thing we desperately need more adoption of.
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