Kernel

Gnome and some KDE applications used to offer tear-off menus that could be positioned anywhere, similar to NeXTSTEP and its derivatives. Seemed like a neat idea that still deserves some consideration.

Neon seems ideally positioned for KDE-specific development. Latest KDE frameworks but not necessarily the latest Ubuntu base.

While KDE neon is great for casual users, contributors will find KDE neon excels. Whether you are a coder, tester, artist, or do bug triage: KDE neon is the easiest way to work on the latest KDE software.

https://neon.kde.org/develop

Fedora may also be worth consideration, though its association with Ret Hat could end up being a limitation.

All KDE applications are well integrated, with a similar look and feel and an easy to use interface, accompanied by an outstanding graphical appearance.

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde

Hands-on work began in the 1990s with a Red Hat derivative for PPC called Yellow Dog Linux. Once finally getting X11 to run correctly, I recall settling on Window Maker as a window manager. At the time, apps associated with the KDE project seemed to have the most cohesive and organized design sensibility.

Leading, of course, to endless distro hopping in search of the one perfect solution.

That'll be a nope. But it'll probably end up being a juggernaut of popularity that vanquishes all the other emerging contenders.

In those dark ages, lesser-known systems like QNX Neutrino and BeOS seemed impossibly fast and modern, and possibly represented the future of computing:

A necessary challenge that QNX had to meet was the performance needs of a customer base primarily concerned with realtime applications. Although an elegant OS architecture is a joy to work with, "academic elegance" will not necessarily create a commercially successful operating system—it must also provide performance better than traditional monolithic kernel operating systems. […] For QNX to deliver the full performance of the hardware to the application level (and to exceed the performance of monolithic kernel operating systems), a number of architectural innovations were developed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDzxdv_MPJs

I don't know how close the lineage is, but modern implementations include Pharo, Squeak, and some other systems based on object-oriented principles.

Intriguing vision, but rife with Magic Leap vibes at this point.

Die meisten handeln von Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technologie:

As long as the originals remain accessible in some capacity for posterity, developers should be free to craft their evolving IP however they see fit. I'd just hope Reverge Labs is doing this because it's genuinely where they want to take the series.

On a day-to-day level, most of us censor what we say in order to conform to social norms. If someone holds unpopular views, they are unlikely to share them with people they don’t trust. But this is not what we mean by ‘self-censorship’, but rather ‘social filter’ that we all practice, and for good reason. The danger is when this ‘social filter’ is slowly expanded to cover more and more issues, increasing self-censorship and further silencing speech and public debate.

https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/self-censorship/43569

I'm unfamiliar with Taskpolicy, but it looks useful.

Relatedly, here's a list of some obscure settings to toggle:

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos

While I don't like neutering an artist's vision in the name of conformity or commercial pressure, it's generally a wise business practice to avoid deliberately offending your potential audience. I suppose a healthy gaming franchise needs new users to thrive, and maybe toning down the excess will broaden the game's appeal.

Intuitively, that's how I assumed it already worked, and it's probably what most new users will also expect. But a single global identity also runs counter to the idea of decentralization, and could invite other further complications.

The current experience can still be pretty jarring.