Someone DM me and explain urbit
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It’s just a very new conception of what a personal computer is, nothing more/less
it’s slow + clunky + doesn’t do much for the time being because its fundamentals are still being laid out, but one day it’ll graduate from being a virtual computer into being a physical one
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urbit is hard to describe because people overthink it and try to explain “what makes it different” – urbit is just a general-purpose computer, and a general-purpose computer can be/do anything
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So this is like, purposely a bad explanation, right? Because to most people a computer is a physical object and nobody has shown me their physical urbit they bought in a store.
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no, I'm genuine here, not trying to obfuscate anything: urbit is literally a virtual computer lol
have you ever emulated a game on macOS/windows/linux? retro games need to emulate being on an older system in order to function, and they use virtual computers to do this.
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So it’s a virtual computer. That’s an improvement already flower!!
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happy to help lol, this stuff is just weird to explain because it's hard describing computers and "what they do" or "what they are for" to begin with
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Is it a computer in the sense that it provides and environment for running apps?
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yes, that's exactly what an urbit does - the default frontend experience right now is more or less a reference to how people use apps on phones and computers, it's just a grid:
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each of these little tiles are "p2p" apps, in the sense that they were distributed to me from other urbits running on the network - in this sense urbit can also be described as an operating system for running a variety of p2p apps
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