templeos

The main reason TempleOS is simple and beautiful is because it's ring-0-only and 
identity-mapped.  Linux wants to be a secure, multi-user mainframe.  That's the 
vision for Linux.  That's why it has file permissions.  The vision for TempleOS 
is a modern, 64-bit Commodore 64.  The C64 was a home computer mostly used for 
games.  It trained my generation how to program.  It was simple, open and 
hackable.  It was not networked.  The games were not multimedia works of art, 
but generated programmatically with innocent, programmer (non-artist) quality 
graphics.  It was simple and unsecure.  If you don't have malware and you don't 
have bugs, protection just slows things down and makes the code complicated.