[jauntywundrkind]

Excellent post. Thank you.

I love looking through awesome-web-desktops. Most aren't infinite canvases but they are canvases, canvases of programs. There's fun stuff. UI paradigms being cooked up. I'll pitch in particular AetherOS, as being a neat web desktop that also is interestingly connected, networked, which is neat. https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops https://bsky.app/profile/aetheros.computer

I do think we need to ask a little more "what next?". Taking Niri as a real desktop example, it's just so good, such simple but enjoyable new bones for a doing computing atop. So close to what was but so unique and nice. It intuitively connects me to the many many what ifs all around, makes me feel like there's such imminent possibility.

Especially today, who can make a UI that can be spoken well with, that is conversationally capable: that frontier feels barely explored. 9p is by far far far the most agentic desktop we have ever had, looked at this way. So beyond how it looks and works, how do computing surfaces express themselves?