• chunes@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    replaced the tree-structured directory hierarchy with an arbitrary directed graph.

    TBH that sounds like a total nightmare

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah this OS would suck as soon as the 00s hit with the global Internet. This OS seems completely incompatible with how the world actually works and would probably collapse under its own design by the year 2010. A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse. The reason why we can poke modern OSes the way we can is to prevent requiring a man-year of work every time we need a major new feature.

      The idea was that every layer, from silicon to user interface, would be designed together, with no compatibility debt to existing platforms.

      …which makes compatability debt between it and literally everything else.

    • NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      I dunno, I kinda fw it. Like having a tag-based system for grouping files instead of nested folders does give me less anxiety in organizing everything, and it lessens the bloat due to duplicates