[PreciousLiberty]

macOS and Windows certainly both have their issues. Windows is still terrible for many things, and has an unappealing development story. Macs have sub-par hardware at the moment, except for the $5000+ iMac Pro. Also, Apple doesn’t seem too focused on really improving macOS going forward.

Linux is great (I’m using it as I type this) but has been unable to attract much in the way of commercial software. Also, it’s the opposite of innovative, it typically takes ideas from the commercial operating systems. It is very nice having a stable Unix-like OS though!

The world is ripe for a new commercial computer (note: not phone) OS that takes the lessons learned over the last 50 years to produce a open, fast, lean, secure and elegant OS. Untold billions await...

[palmer]

Linux is great (I'm using it as I type this) but has been unable to attract much in the way of commercial software

True for desktop, but Linux owns the commercial server software market. Sure Microsoft dabbles on the server side, but they were never a serious server OS.

[daniel1212]

The world is ripe for a new commercial computer (note: not phone) OS that takes the lessons learned over the last 50 years to produce a open, fast, lean, secure and elegant OS. Untold billions await.

Commercial computer versus personal? That may see sales, while as for personal computers, most people are not interested in new Desktops in preference to mobile devices, but you can take W/10 and much customize it. Part of that form me means install Classic Shell , and also Right Click Context Menu Extender so you can add things it may take longer to find

Speed things up with hotkeys, including remapping CapsLock to ctrl+c (CapsLock::^c) with AutoHotKey, (Linux has no real equivalent), so you can add scripts to easily open up programs, or places, or features like Add and Remove programs (C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl), and with and vastly improve Windows (or anything I have seen in Linux) with the White-Tiger/T-Clock .

Get the Quick Launch menu back (right click on Task Bar>Toolbars and navigate to %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch),

You might also want to make shortcuts to the Send To (%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo ) folder, and place one in it, so you can send other shortcuts to it, like to the Quick Launch. And to the largely unknown Start up folder (Main one is in "C:\Users\saved\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup), And by placing shortcuts to apps/programs you can send files to them to open.