Lots of operating systems have been following the Unix way of doing things while some people complain about it, saying it's old and need to be changed. Is this complaint genuine or just faggotry? Is there a system with REALLY good features that would put Unix aside?
Do we need an alternative to Unix?
Nathaniel Ross
Ryan Diaz
I hear the NT kernel is pretty popular
Sebastian Ortiz
>some people complain about it, saying it's old and need to be changed.
Old doesn't mean bad. If those people want a new philosophy it needs to be better than Unix and so far it hasn't materialized.
>Is there a system with REALLY good features that would put Unix aside
Everything is a file ensures that transparency. Anyone can operate their own computer how they like if everything is a file. There is only one reason to make files obscure and that is so things will be done your way. That is a bad philosophy for the user. Unfortunately a lot Redhat sponsored projects do exactly that. See Gnome3 and Systemd.
Camden Campbell
We need to go to the cloud!
Make cloud kernel someone!
Adrian Nelson
If it's not a file, what is it?
Aiden Murphy
bloat
Jordan Myers
Most of the good things that can't be done in pure POSIX have already been done in Linux, with some userland on top. About the only things I wish GNU/Linux had were device nodes for NICs (or at least bash/zsh consistently being built with /dev/tcp) and /dev/screenN for Wayland, as well as a way to better mimic NT peripheral handling for video games.
Dominic King
Gnome3 is making files obscure? Why are they doing that?
Charles Taylor
I have no idea what they mean. Maybe removing desktop icons?
Cooper Smith
They want to sell a brand like Apple. That has been their goal since Gnome3 was in development stage. They don't want you to tweak anything. When someone sees your screen Gnome devs what them to say "Oh, that's Gnome. I've seen that before"