We need another Linus. Someone that would squirrel themselves away building something sufficiently good and differentiated giving them the feedback fuel for a lifetime art project (whoever can do this is an artist imo).

Rather than the browser being an application on TexasOS, I think the OS should in some sense be a browser, only it shouldn't inherit the cruft of the modern web like ChromeOS. Browsers nearly emulate an operating system anyway, only they're built around running remote programs and data too. A lot was written about Nostr being the second web a year ago and maybe that's more plausible than it seems at Nostr's current age.

I'd think it should be an AR-native operating system too given I'm confident enough screens and signals will move as close to human sensors as possible and you'd hope the MVP's release date is compatible with the future it's released in.

Thanks for writing Paul! I'll have to read How to Build a Small Town in Texas soon. I've been into that sort of thing lately.