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Z-A,z-a,01234 [soylentnews.org] writes:

I don't like change for the sake of change, but it seems that all major OSes suffer from the same disease.
So I'm curios if you guys share these feelings.

I'm thinking that it would be really great to have a long-term support, backward-compatible OS having a well designed, stable, intuitive and accessible UI. This OS would target PCs (desktop, laptop, netbooks) and tablets.

By long-term I mean at least 30 years.
Backward-compatible means all applications will be runnable for the whole lifetime of the OS on the same or compatible hardware, as long as they don’t have bugs that are revealed by changes in HW or updates of the OS and don’t depend on bugs in the OS implementation itself.
The UI will be largely shared by the PC and tablet versions of the OS. Some differences will be unavoidable to accommodate the small-form screen of the latter devices. The user interface will be composed of a collection of all good designs available today and some new ideas that help the users to better perform most common tasks.

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