MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by Quitschquat on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:33PM (#46909160)

I wish my MBP M3 Max was snappy like that

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Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by simondotau on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:34AM (#46909486)

I doubt you’d wish for it if the price was the limitations and incompleteness of MenuetOS. While hobby operating systems are great for exploring possibilities, you quickly bump into an endless stream of tiny frustrating inconveniences.

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Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by PassingClouds on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:53AM (#46909585)

Pretty much it. An modern OS is more than just a window and file manager, 90% of the work is in all the edge cases that we take for granted.

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Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by dlcarrier on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:56PM (#46918674)

    an endless stream of tiny frustrating inconveniences

That sounds suspiciously like OS X, especially the newer releases.

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Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by simondotau on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:20AM (#46922964)

Try being frustrated by a really basic USB stack with no hot-plug USB support. Or by no unicode support, no vector fonts, or a multi-user security model. Is that frustrating enough for you? Okay, how about no process isolation or memory protection? Does that sound like macOS to you?

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Re:MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk by bzzzt on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:44AM (#46910872)

Is it still snappy when you're loading an 1Gb document though? And is it as secure as macOS when opening untrusted content?

Lots a bloat are caused by inefficient programming, but not all bloat is useless.

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