I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!
I feel like we only have two options now
- Ascend to BSD-land
- Ironically supporting Windows Unironically
edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD


Run exclusively self made programs
Need a calculator? Program one and compile it
Well, within reason
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Got an old wild idea resurfaced from that…
An OS “entirely” in Haskell.
… calculator: ghci.
… window manager: xmonad. … (and… a rewrite of X11 protocol in Haskell, sufficient to run xmonad).
… text editor: yi
… … and a Haskell shell… would surely be named hash.
I already have irc bots made from the tutorial to make an irc bot in Haskell… that could be converted to an irc client.
… doubtless many more Haskell tools to populate the rest of the purposes.
… Haskell tools to interface with the web could be interesting…
First you need to create a compiler
At first I thought you meant merely compiling everything by hand [(with make)], like LFS (and then thought LFS without following LFS… and then thought make life easy, start with just a kernel and busybox (or toybox)).
But yeah… that’d be the real kudos.
I’ve made a small start towards that, having written my own text editor. (And, I suppose, in a way, my own irc client, “diis”.)
But that’s a long way from writing my own kernel and userland and other advanced accoutrements.
Maybe instead of writing own kernel, could just fork one. … Maybe Ironclad… or even Hurd.
As it turns out programming a calculator can be quite complex: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
probably quicker and easier to just write whatever calculation you need in python
Lol new license, you way read my source code but you may not run it/use it/ do literally anything with it