This is where you lost me.
Omarchy is stock Linux with vibe coded config files.
If we were seeing experimental kernel designs, new memory management, abstraction layers over GPUs and TPUs baked in as OS primitives than as device drivers, and so on, I'd get excited.
But AI slop propagated by a fascist with an obvious and stupid agenda? No. That's not an example of something interesting.
In other words, they lost me there too.
I have yet to see any OS developer go all-in on AI and agentic coding in the same way. Maybe Microsoft. But my point was about new operating systems, with new ideas.
Yes you can try and take things in an original direction but we're ignoring the incredible amount of work that's gone into Linux, solving most of the problems you can't imagine and that AI will burn though a lot of time and tokens trying to re-solve (badly, without a ton of intelligent intervention).
I think you're more likely to see more people experimenting with existing open source work, rather than generating new projects. These new projects are easy come, easy go.
Now with WSL and its use being increasingly relevant (MXC, Windows Server 2025, Windows IoT Enterprise), Windows is increasingly looking just like DEC, IBM and Unisys mainframes (microcomputers) with their UNIX subsystems[0].
So we really need new ideas in OS space.
The mobile space has some alternative approaches, however it is mostly replacing userspace, while keeping an UNIX kernel underneath.
[0] - Yeah, Windows NT already had it somehow, but we all know how little effort that was.
If you have that then so much overhead can disappear, and you can design such better APIs.
Wirth did it at least twice, with Medos-2 (1983) and later with various flavours of Oberon System.