Nire Bryce

I kinda disagree -- if you can learn all the moving pieces, it's the best we've got and works rather well. The issue is learning those when what you set out to do was "have an rss reader my phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop can read from, that syncs progress" or whatever.

but the problem is, well, the network layer is ancient but all devices have to use it because it's the way they are able to talk to each other at all. So I'm not sure a new OS would fix that, outside of maybe pipelining all of the things, and maybe collecting all the helper GUI/TUIs in one place. Home Internet is very different from corp Internet is very different from mobile internet is very different from VPS data center Internet.

The problem is that if you want to host multiple services on the same port, but serve them with SSL, you now need to learn a reverse proxy on top of docker. And if you want to do that, you probably also need a crash course in network routing. and if you want to do that at home, you'll need to understand NAT traversal, bastion servers, or something like tailscale. And you need to understand DNS on a slightly more than surface level, if you want SSL/TLS.

but these are just solutions to problems any OS will have, and if anything the fact that they've been built on top of Linux means you're at least dealing with a well documented (if, hard to find documentation on what you need when you need it) operating system, compared to something no one has written about yet.