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> Its design from kernel to UI is intended to make the system accessible to the user sitting at the desk. What does this translate to, in some amount of technical detail?
Minimalist and consistent UX, incredibly responsive applications, simple and logical organizational structure, with _excellent_ documentation and developer tools for the era. You boot straight to a desktop, and there's no ads, alerts, pop-ups, pop-unders, noisy task apps, sidebars, widgets, and other engagement seeking focus destroyers. Every app has a reasonably consistent UX and presents as much necessary and relev…
I mean, barely anything you mentioned in this reply to do with the kernel.