[_zzaw]

Yeah, this whole thread is why Hacker News has the "orangesite" reputation it does. I wouldn't have shared anything like this on here, and that is a criticism of HN, not projects like Mercury OS.

I thought this was an interesting project. The site is well-designed. The UI is attractive. As a designer, I really enjoy reading about these things. The fact that this isn't something you'd build your personally customized Linux distro on is not a problem for me. (And no, I don't know the designer or any of his friends. I think the challenge the guy took on was interesting, and I liked reading about it.)

I like HN because of what people share here, but I've never liked the community itself, and this thread is a pretty clear example of why.

[ungamedplayer]

Why wouldnt you build this on Linux?

[_zzaw]

No, I said the OS didn't look like something you'd use for heavy-duty development work.

I was being a little sarcastic, but I was just amazed at all the people who spent ten seconds looking at this and said "this is useless, it clearly wouldn't be very good for all the extremely complicated powerful things I want to do. Can it handle fifteen different terminal windows? Fail!!1"

[ungamedplayer]

I don't actually see any os at all on this site. I see a ui design idea. Hence my assumption that you don't build your s on top of an os.

Or maybe I'm just old and words no longer mean things the way that I am used to interpreting.