Just a pure Rust computer. No operating system, just Rust.
Like a literal block of rusted iron? I like it
Reject operating system.
Return to abacus.
yeah tech is general went mainstream, we must retreat to the real world
I very often have visions of an 8-bit future.
A very retro-futurism. An 80's esq cyber-punk future.
"CEEFAX in space". 8-bit. The last human level of computing.
When you die using the abacus, you die in real life.
ABACUS! /donvito
What universe are you living in that Linux is mainstream? According to the steam hardware survey (which is the closest thing to a trustworthy census we have for operating system usage) Linux accounts for 3.58%. Congratulations, we're ahead of mac! Windows still has 94.23%. But this is the year of the Linux desktop!
Haha. But un-ironically, Rasbian OS (Debian build for Raspberry Pi); because open hardware is the next thing we desperately need more adoption of.
Redox
Lisp machine
BSD.
Linux from Scratch obviously built with Scratch programming language
but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!
Do you mean all the tears of people bitching on Gentoo because it is allegedly difficult to install were in vain?
Though on a serious note, I unironically wanted Gentoo/BSD to keep existing so I could move to it. I like FreeBSD (but not its users) or DragonflyBSD but pkg/pkgsrc can't hold a candle to Portage in terms of letting you fine tune your install.
I started using Gentoo many years ago, and took a break from it for a few years. It has some overhead to maintain. Two years or so ago I went back to it and, no joke, it is so much simpler now. Dist-kernel, dracut, refind just sorted everything. I felt like I was cheating. I don't have to write my own custom initramfs for my custom needs? Stuff just solves it? And compilation errors and conflicts even when running a bunch of keyworded packages: gone! What is going on?
When Python 3.something hit they did a massive overhaul on emerge's resolution algorythm so it helped a lot when resolving stuff - and now you almost never need to use revdep.rebuild or things like that, I frankly forgot when it was the last time I used it, probably it has been years. Plus now things like binaries for heavy packages, portage hooks and stuff like that makes things a lot easier for people coming in. I'm really not sure why people still bitch on it or why some people seem to need every package they install available right away... but at least for me it's been great all this years.
ReactOS
Obviously, you need to get BSD on a computer without any proprietary firmware.
Throw out all higher technology and exclaim how this makes you superior constantly.
Everyone saying nixos the next arch but we are all traumatized so we dont even recommend it /hj. But actually dont use it, youre gonna give up or spend hundreds of hours crafting the perfect deployable system which youre never gonna deploy on anything other than your single laptop that has nixos.
It is not just about deploying, which to be honest is great. I can build software for my Raspberry Potato on my desktop and remote deploy the config using one line in the terminal.
It is also for when I decide to tinker with my system by changing stuff like audio latency and clock rates for real time audio, USB HID overrides and so on. Normally I would be scared to break something, or worse, fix something without knowing what did it and thus learning nothing from my efforts.
The best part is having a system that you can approach almost scientifically, making it unbreakable in the sense that you can immediately revert to a true former state, both as a build and a config using GRUB and Git, respectively.
DOS
Linux forks.
Elks linux for starters.
Have you compiled your own kernel?
BSD of course
Hint: :q!
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