Microsoft could take the kernel from current Windows 11, and slap the UI from Windows 7 on it, and people would be FUCKING HAPPY to pay cash money for it.

Computers were a lot nicer when everything was on its own disk. You'd have a disk to boot up, a disk for your application, a disk for your data, it was fine. Physical storage management is much easier than managing a big tree of files, and making it all cloud based on infinite drives complicates.

While it's obviously very early in the development life cycle, I see Wayback as being on much firmer technical ground than having UI toolkits use Wayland directly. Criticize X11 for being a mess internally, that's fine, and probably accurate. Wayland should have been a layer between a thin maintainable X11 server and the hardware.

Yeah, and I am the "weird" one for preferring a Commodore 64 to the absolute dystopian hellscape of modern computing.

There are vanishingly few programs for computers that can justly be called perfect. WordPerfect for DOS was definitely one of them.