ArcaOS could embrace the apple strategy when they created OS/X of using an open source base system (in their case Darwin) with thier own commercial propriety system on top of it (keeping the OS/2 UI for example like the workplace shell/WPS). And, they had created the "classic" mode to allow old os 9 apps to still work.
Would require them embracing a totally new direction though.
Sounds kind of complicated to just replace single parts with open source technology - so at some point it makes more sense to fundamentally change the rules of the game like Apple did I think.
I mean, I know it takes less resources to just keep going with what they have.
But at the same time, at some point it makes more sense to jump onto a whole new ship if the old barge is starting to rust and getting holes and taking on water, as much as I love the 90s OS/2

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If ArcaOS embraced a base system like Darwin or some of unix, programming a browser would be simple.
I know a lot of users woud prefer ReactOS or something Dos based since it's closer to the Os/2 Core. Yet ReacOS has struggled themselves for a decade to get beyond beta and don't have a functional browser themselves.
So it might be time to embrace reality and create something new based on what is, if ArcaOS has the guts to do so.
I mean, do I need yet another version of os/2 warp that works on a 2026 motherboard? Not at all.
Do I need a functional browser? Yes.
They are already spending a ton of resources but just in the wrong direction.
I think it's time to relegate the old IBM license to a virtualized session inside a totally new OS, while keeping WPS on top of it, which is where the user has always spent 99% of their time anyways.
My 2 cents.