Gaming: This Vibe-coded Operating System Looks Like A Nightmarish Version...
I guess we should be impressed that it works at all.
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Every now and then, someone brings up the haunting spectre of an AI-focused Windows 12. While recent rumours about the fabled, unicorn-like OS have since been debunked, it's not difficult to imagine an operating system that may one day be developed by AI, and all the horrors that might entail.
Or indeed, you could just develop one now and see how it turns out (via Hackaday). Enter Vib-OS, a vibe-coded operating system described as a "from-scratch, Unix-like operating system with full multi-architecture support for Arm64 and x86_64" coded with Claude.
You say Unix, I say the future of a Windows that never was—and hopefully, shall never be. Thankfully, I don't have to test out whatever spaghetti code the AI deemed was suitable to run an OS, as YouTuber tirimid has done all the hard work for me. And the video, you'll be pleased to hear, is an absolute riot.
Tirimid likes testing weird operating systems, and has a nine-point checklist to run through of tasks to complete in each of them. First up: booting!
Setting up a virtual machine, tirimid installed the iso with 4 GB of memory allocation and a four-core processor. Unfortunately, the installer began looking for a macOS-specific utility, despite compatibility listings for various virtual machines.
However, hunting around in the commands revealed more installation options, each of which appear to be broken in different ways. After much fiddling, tirimid managed to finally get the OS to boot... after over an hour's worth of hunting through forum threads and much head scratching.
Discovering a Mac-like OS, tirimid attempted to connect to the internet. Finding a lack of options, he instead discovered a downloads folder—that proceeded to add extra forward slashes to the address bar every time it was clicked, and nothing else. As did the rest of the folders, it seems.
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