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John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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520 points OlympicMarmoto | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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tomovo ◴[30 Aug 25 14:29 UTC] No.45074984[source]▶
Does SteamOS count as something Carmack would discourage as well? Yes it's a Linux-based system and yes even based on an existing distro, but it is a purpose-specific OS and it seems like it's working well for Valve and people using it to play Windows games without Windows...
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1. jjmarr ◴[30 Aug 25 14:31 UTC] No.45075008[source]▶
End of the tweet:

> I can only really see a new general purpose OS arriving due to essentially sacrificing a highly successful product’s optimality to the goal of birthing the new OS