This is something I could scream about for hours: WHY IS SOFTWARE SO SLOW? And I don't mean Google sized RL training clusters, I mean stuff like goddamn text editors. This can't be as good as it can get, there just has to be a better way.https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ …
Backwards compatibility: Linux is big because it maintains compatibility with a older APIs. I assume Windows is similar. Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/ is 49 MB for a full GUIed OS with a few basic applications. It does not support existing software however.
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ChromeOS is an example of what Linux can be if you do not need to maintain compatibility with other software and hardware.
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Modularly: Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org/ is 4.5 GB and takes quite huge amounts of RAM. Why does it need to be so large? Because it runs each group of applications in its own VM with it's own kernel and root FS.
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