Purpose This is as attempt at finally producing a usable desktop OS for my personal use.
Choice of technologies
OS: [[https://nixos.org/][NixOS]] (see [[https://github.com/albins/nixpkgs][my efforts to make packages]])
Desktop: Gnome (or Mate if I really have to, anything but the ugly german DE)
Long-term goals and priorities
Unit tests for system functionality
Freedom of /choice/ was the wrong freedom
Develop and test systems as, well, systems, not kernel plus packages
Declarative Is Good
Stability and maintainability over features
A good UI takes clever functionality every single time
The 70's are over
Harmony of function and form – all programs should, where possible, look, feel and work similarly