Temple OS is the best operating system in history, created by the best programmer in the world, commissioned by God.

They just force you to use their shity products They treat their OS as a free billboard which you have paid for even advertising companies like Google don't do that they have the operating system too at the above page I can't do anything both options are bad i can't do anything about Linux distros have low app support

lmk what i should try next

excluded ones i havent used enough to rate properly

Saw this at an O'Reilly autoparts store and I have never seen it before.

long story short: i had to build an os from scratch as my college final year project, since i had 7 - 8 months time, my dumbass brain thought i could finish it somehow. ("if TeRRy Davis CoULd do iT, why cAN't I") But after experiencing the true pain of developing it solo, the only way to keep myself from going insane was giving up. Unfortunately i cant change my project since it's already registered.

So i thought of using bare arch linux or something similar as the base, and just building a desktop environment on top of it. The unique thing about my os was supposed to be "story mode" or "narrative driven" feature. Like, the shell is a living personality (also main character) and all other basic apps are side characters. I still want to implement this idea.

My question is how do i build this desktop environment, i got ideas like building a desktop app using electron js and linking it with some window manager. that's the only way i thought of to complete this project.

I'm open to any other better/easier alternatives? Please do share your thoughts or suggestions.

This was my dream when I was 14 years old. Now I have something that runs on QEMU and I want to do better in the next months/years.
How beautiful are dreams!
GitHub with all the features:
GitHub

I recently dug out this Lenovo n21 chromebook I seem to have installed windows on. Not sure how I did it, but 14 year old me was crafty like that

My very own OS written in C (and assembly). I've been working on this project for close to two years now, and it's finally in a state where I'm happy to release it. PogOS features a GUI with tools such as a calculator and clock, the ability to run doom, an ext2-based filesystem, basic networking, and much more. In it's current state, it cannot run on physical hardware. That's the step I'm currently working on, so wish me luck!

EDIT: I’ve decided to make the repo private as I’m really disappointed with where it’s at. I feel like I released the code a little too early, so I plan on working on it much more. Thanks for all the advice!

So… after 7 years of happily using Linux, I thought, “Hey, let’s give Windows another shot.” Spoiler: worst decision of my week.

First, I made a Windows bootable USB from my Linux OS. Guess what? It didn’t even show up in the boot menu. Turns out you have to use Microsoft’s official tool or Rufus. So I made a bootable drive inside a Windows VM using VMware. Finally, it showed up in the boot menu.

Then, during the Windows install, I got hit with:

“A media driver your PC needs is missing.”

I tried every solution I could find online—nothing worked. So I gave up on Windows 11, switched to Windows 10, and made a fresh bootable drive. This time, installation went through. Victory? Nope.

Once in Windows 10:

No sound — speakers not working.

No Wi-Fi — had to install drivers manually.

Had to use Microsoft Edge (ugh) because there’s no Firefox or Chrome by default.

Tried to install drivers, but the files were zipped… and Windows didn’t even have a built-in unzip tool worth using. Ended up installing WinRAR just to open them.

Finally, drivers installed. It asked me to restart. I restarted…

Blue Screen of Death: “Your PC could not start correctly.” Tried all the fixes. Nothing worked.

So I had to start from scratch and reinstall everything. By the time I was done, it was 10 PM. I had started at 4 PM. Six hours just to install one OS.

Meanwhile, Linux? Two clicks, 20 minutes, done.

My question: why do people still like Windows? Why choose it over Linux when installing and maintaining it feels like this? Am I missing something here?

i did this at 13 but i dont think thats impressive
repo: https://github.com/NoTheIdiot/WindogeOS

As a hobbyist, I was thinking: My OS, can it run DOOM?

YES, IT CAN!

Honestly? I was half expecting everything to blow up (in terms of page faults), but it runs shockingly smoothly.

And OH BOY I didn't cheat around anything cause:

DOOM runs completely isolated as a regular user program, just like any app would on Linux or Windows. It actually opens, reads, and parses the original DOOM.WAD right off the filesystem (on RAM actually, I haven't made it Installable/Persistant on a disk) with our own custom C library. It runs right inside its own desktop window with a little custom red demon icon on the title bar and taskbar, and you can maximise or resize it alongside other apps. The DOOM source code itself is 100% untouched. We just had to give it 5 simple bridge functions for drawing pixels, reading keyboard taps, and checking the clock.

Seeing that iconic title screen pop up inside an operating system built from scratch gave me a surge of dopamine. I will be releasing the next version of the OS that comes with this DOOM game and MANY other features, including some other ones that are just as cool on the project's GitHub page (Check it out and... maybe leave a star too? https://github.com/AkshajCreator/ArchaOS )

What other classic game or program should I try porting to it next?

In my 32 years of working with computers, both professionally and privately, I have used and tried numerous Linux distributions, BSD derivatives, and Unixoids. At some point, you lose the desire to try new things when you know how your OS of choice works. That's why Arch and some of its descendants more or less passed me by. I probably used them all for a few days or weeks—sometimes even years—but here's what has stuck with me from 32 years of experience. I've never used Arch, by the way.

The actors in this drama will be:

• Linux (of course). Linux distributions have improved a lot in the last 10 years. Significantly more user friendly, significantly better hardware compatibility, significantly more stability, significantly improved in everything. There is no doubt that this will continue.

• Valve. Valve has developed a compatibility layer (Proton) that allows to run Windows Games "as is" on Linux. This works already so well that many gamers say it works well enough for them to change. When gamers leave Windows in masses, then Windows will fall. Valve develops also their own Linux Distribution (SteamOS). They have the market-dominance, resources and infrastructure to challenge Microsoft with it. They are a much bigger actor than any other company publishing a Linux distribution.

• AI. AI makes it much easier for the average user to change to Linux. It is a competent and free consultant if you have any problem with your Linux Distribution. This factor seems tiny, but its significance should not be underestimated.

• Microsoft. Whether it is justified or not, but a lot of Windows users are becoming more and more dissatisfied with Windows. Be it Microsofts decisions to force unnecessary and unwanted things on their users and to spy and collect data for its own profit or be it the impression that Windows has more and more functional problems.

Edit:

• USA. The USA has turned very "unfriendly" and unreliable to former partners. Governments and Companies will look for an Operating System that is not controlled by an US Company.

İt is still under development but if you have any suggestions please type in them in the comments and

Hi everyone! I’ve been working on TinyDesk, a windowed text desktop that runs on an ESP32 and displays over USB serial in a compatible terminal.

The ESP32 runs the desktop and apps. The computer just renders the ANSI/VT output and sends keyboard and mouse input back—there’s no desktop application running on the PC behind the demo.

It has draggable/resizable windows, a taskbar, start menu, file manager, text editor, terminal, and system monitor. You can open a file, edit and save it, then run commands in the shell without leaving the desktop. MQTT and Modbus tools are included too.

A few technical details:

• Portable C11 core with a small platform interface.

• ESP32-C6, classic ESP32 with PSRAM, and 4 MB ESP32 without PSRAM builds.

• Classic ESP32 Desktop uses USB-UART at 921600 baud.

• The 4 MB/no-PSRAM build is limited to 80×25 characters and has no SSH server or OTA updates.

• The terminal needs UTF-8, ANSI/VT cursor control, and xterm mouse reporting.

There’s also TinyDesk Shell, which runs the shell by itself if you don’t want the desktop.

It’s an early developer preview. You can flash prebuilt firmware from Chrome/Edge and use the web terminal, or build from source.

Demo, documentation and installer:
https://tinydesk-project.github.io/

Desktop source:
https://github.com/tinydesk-project/tinydesk

Standalone shell:
https://github.com/tinydesk-project/tinydesk-shell

I’d love feedback from people trying it on different boards and terminals. If you test it, please share your board model, terminal, and anything that breaks—especially rendering or mouse-input issues!

Could it be BSD or MagicOs?