Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by rafaelmdec on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:27PM
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And, BTW, according to Henry Ford, if he listened to his customers, he would have gone after faster horses.
Most people don't see innovation until it is materialized in front of them.
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:01PM
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Many professionals, not even necessarily in IT prefer the "green screen", because it enables them to do things faster with a few key-strokes, instead of having to click around in laggy menues.
I guess, maybe because you don't know it any better(systems and device form factors), you're trying to correct an already dumbed down(for mass acceptance) interface paradigm, with one which is even more indirect and imprecise.
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by rafaelmdec on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:05PM
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Yup. Many like tens of thousands out of billions. Makes sense.
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:06PM
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Trillions of flies eat shit. Makes sense?
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by rafaelmdec on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:16PM
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You cannot be seriously thinking that the future lies in memorizing commands and typing words one stroke at a time on a keyboard.
We are already seeing traditional coding evaporate overnight, let alone have people memorize commands and type it like we were in the 19th century.
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:40PM
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I can't tell how this is developing, and which parts will be adopted by the masses, if offered at all, and which wont, and how that will change what the few remaining professionals do.
I'm just thinking it's not as clear-cut as you make it to be, as the past shows, multiple times. For whichever, maybe technically unrelated reasons.
Also "use it or lose it" and "learned helplessness" comes to mind.
Re:Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
by rafaelmdec on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:55PM
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Tks for sharing your views on this
If you don't agree, take a step back and tell me how many people prefer navigating a terminal window using a keyboard instead of a graphic interface using a mouse.
The future belongs to a more frictionless, no keyboard, voice activated UI, IMHO.