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Essence: A desktop operating system built from scratch, for control and simplicity (nakst.gitlab.io)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After years of constant updates and neverending new features, the modern desktop operating system has evolved into a slow, complex mess.

I hate this framing. The modern desktop OS, such as Linux, supports an ungodly amount of hardware configurations and devices and performs at breakneck speeds. Often with specific quirks implemented to work around hardware bugs. I wouldn't diss the "modern desktop operating system" when all this person managed to do is write an unusable toy replacement, no matter how technically difficult that is to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed on that. Though I will give them credit for not just re-skinning a Linux or BSD based OS and calling it a day like lots of "new" distros do. I thought it was some kind of Chromium OS distro based on the look, and was happy to see it is just the current look for the UI that is running a completely new OS. The bold claim does seem a bit much, and does remind me of how Google advertised the early versions of Chrome. Which of course was also much faster than the other browsers, but that was because it also didn't have most features of the "slow" browsers. After it got extensions and much more fully working versions of features from other browsers, it became about the same from a speed/resources standpoint. Since it seems to be like one guy, I am willing to be a bit more forgiving as it is about on par with many other new projects trying to get attention for funding so they can quit their regular jobs and focus on just the project itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's got a pretty UI, but I wish I could find more info on it. Their GitLab lists kernel features, so I guess it really is from-scratch, but even that page is light on details

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I decided to try it out and yeah, fast boot and responsive UI. Some unconventional UI choices like a Chrome-esque tabbed structure to window management

Seems like the gitlab info is out of date, since there's no IRC client available but there is an image editor that wasn't listed in the readme. I like the design choice of having a window's Close X turn into a round button when there are unsaved changes for it to ask you about upon closing