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Matt Hanson

I asked ChatGPT to design a new OS - and now my desktop is a nightmare

Businessman staring at laptop with frightened face in the dark

Everyone remembers their first operating system, don’t they? Well, if they're a massive geek like me, they do. Mine was Workbench 2.0 on the Amiga A500+. Since then, I’ve used various iterations of DOS, Windows, Linux and macOS – and that got me thinking: what would a futuristic operating system look like?

Basically, what kind of software will we be using on the best laptops of 2033 (and beyond)? If the past few decades of software and hardware evolution are anything to go by, the operating systems we’ll be using in 10 years could be radically different – and yet still have some elements we’ve come to rely on as well (I doubt Microsoft will ever ditch the Start menu from Windows again).

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