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TempleOS is a fascinating project. It is completely different from everything we currently have, and in some interesting ways.

Notably, the UI, shell, document format, organization structure, and IDE are all one and the same. Your shell is a text editor where you can embed drawings and link them to other documents, and your documents can be compiled and run with a built-in JIT compiler that also provides its own debug environment.

It's the opposite paradigm to the Unix "everything is a string" philosophy, and also antithetical to Windows' notion of "everything is a GUI". It's more "everything is connected".

Oh you mean like Genera?

TempleOS is a fascinating project. It is completely different from everything we currently have, and in some interesting ways.

Notably, the UI, shell, document format, organization structure, and IDE are all one and the same. Your shell is a text editor where you can embed drawings and link them to other documents, and your documents can be compiled and run with a built-in JIT compiler that also provides its own debug environment.

It's the opposite paradigm to the Unix "everything is a string" philosophy, and also antithetical to Windows' notion of "everything is a GUI". It's more "everything is connected".

... resembling early DOS-based GUIs.

RTFA please.

I've not tried it myself, but this article was a quite interesting look at the OS and its design.

It's a very minimalist OS, by intent. Like DOS or AmigaOS, everything just runs at ring 0, no memory protection. This would be a security risk, but a) that's the user's fault and b) networking is the work of Satan anyways. Likewise, there's no "users" or "file permissions". There's minimal hardware support - VGA graphics, PC speaker sound, and that's it.

While it will clearly never amount to anything in itself, it would not be bad if Linux took some ideas from it, and a similar project with more focus on modern hardware might be able to find success.