Alternative Operating Systems

I'd totally go back to BeOS, if it wasn't for hd video and 3d graphics. The only other thing it doesn't have is a modern web browser, but that can be solved by running the browser on another machine (like a cheap ARM board) and then using VNC or remote X to get it on the desktop.

Literally LOLing

lmao

Throw in a JIT HolyC compiler, and Bob's yer uncle.

I'm trying to set up openbsd as daily shitposter, then i'll run windows vms in it for porngameu and other crap
problem is, i have trouble reading.

I wouldn't recommend that, Windows is only emulated on QEMU(no KVM), OpenBSDs native VM only supports BSDs and Linux so far.

Pretty sure Haiku has 3d acceleration with intel chips.

Cell's SPEs are derived in large part from Motorola's work on Altivec for the PPC 7xxx

That's because the PC is too complicated. Nobody can develop drivers for all of the hardware they need, even if they wanted to, so they use an existing Unix-like OS. OSes are bloated because of hardware variation and backwards compatibility. I think the Raspberry Pi would be a good platform for developing an OS. RISCOS and AROS have been ported to the Raspberry Pi.

You don't need all drivers though, just enough for your OS to run. TempleOS doens't support any GPU or sound card, just pc speaker and 16-color VGA. He doesn't care about USB or networking either, so that cuts out a lot. I guess it wouldn't be that hard to add some basic networking via serial port though, like in the old days. Not that RS232 is standard on PCs anymore, but you can still buy PCI I/O card. Allegedly someone added TCP/IP to a TempleOS fork, but dunno how he deals with network devices (maybe he just assumes you're running in a VMWare context, but that's not very interesting). Anyway TCP/IP seems like the wrong way to go for an OS where everything is in ring 0, as it raises the risks too high, whereas a terminal emulator running on serial port is a much smaller attack surface.