[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do I get over my obsession with operatin...
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       Ask HN: How do I get over my obsession with operating systems?
        
       I'm not officially a programmer, although I code a lot. And despite
       the impression people get from me, my college degree is not in CS.
       One of my tech obsessions in the past few years has been reading
       about operating systems, their differences, their history, and the
       decisions they made along the way. Sometimes it's a sad story (like
       when I read what happened to Solaris and BeOS), and sometimes it
       gives me joy (like seeing how Linux distros are getting more stable
       and consumption-ready for end-users). On that note, sometimes I ask
       myself how the world would be different if UNIX had won instead of
       Windows, and then I remember that I actually don't hate the Windows
       kernel as it's honestly a rock solid design. Still though, I think
       a lot about OS's and sometimes get sad that Unix (as it was meant
       to be) didn't get into consumer's hands. OS X and Linux are out
       there, but they're more like Unix-like OS's.  But I feel like this
       obsession neither benefits me in any meaningful way, nor does it go
       away on its own. Is there something I can do that'll help me stop
       thinking about OS's and focus on the tasks and things that we can
       do on them instead?
        
       Author : behnamoh
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-04-16 22:38 UTC (23 minutes ago)
        
       | mattl wrote:
       | You can't. You never will. I'm the same. Just accept it.
        
       | Gollapalli wrote:
       | Write one.
       | 
       | Or build distro or something. You've got an itch, might as well
       | scratch it.
        
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