People are creating new operating systems, but the reason they don’t catch on is hardware and software compatibility. It was hard enough to make an actual performant operating system that could work on a wide variety of hardware back in the 90s. Trying to do it for every possible hardware combination available now is just crazy. It can also be an incredibly difficult task to get even open source software working properly on a new OS. Anything else is just completely out of the question.
Even Google and Microsoft ran into this problem. Microsoft dropped Singularity ages ago, and while Google’s Fuschia made it to literally a couple of devices its future is uncertain since Google laid off a significant part of the team working on it.
People are creating new operating systems, but the reason they don’t catch on is hardware and software compatibility. It was hard enough to make an actual performant operating system that could work on a wide variety of hardware back in the 90s. Trying to do it for every possible hardware combination available now is just crazy. It can also be an incredibly difficult task to get even open source software working properly on a new OS. Anything else is just completely out of the question.
Even Google and Microsoft ran into this problem. Microsoft dropped Singularity ages ago, and while Google’s Fuschia made it to literally a couple of devices its future is uncertain since Google laid off a significant part of the team working on it.