#ShowerThoughts: A graphical desktop needs to be an app, with updates managed separately from the underlying OS (kernel+userland). It would be a meta-app, inside which other apps run. We have created such apps, they're called web browsers. But they require a desktop to run on, and their security is appalling, regularly giving malicious code access to the underlying OS.
Could we replace both desktop and browser with a graphical meta-app that runs real programs in isolation from the base OS?
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