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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Personally, i dream of a stateless, tag/attribute-based, tree-less operating system. "directories" would not be neccessary but a tag could be displayed as one in file managers. Want to load a library? type:library, name:xyz it is.
Stuff is there on the disk anyway, you just have to identify it.

But that would require the whole system and the tooling made for this.
But maybe we get there; since the young generation isn't used to file trees anymore.

Edit: ok, scratch the kernel, it could work.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You described a file system. You can make that system easily and put in any os. You don't have to make and os for one feature.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But even in NixOS there are issues with non-FHS paths. And the kernel expects some paths too, also the whole bootstrapping thing. Sure, they could just be adapted.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't it just require a kernel module rather than a whole kernel?