Philosophy

Ashet OS is not your regular daily-driver OS. It is meant to provide two core values:

• Education

• Fun

It is meant to invite for tinkering, changing, hacking your machine, your OS, your software, ...

§1 OS Zen

Consider this some basic hints on which ideas lead to the design decisions in the OS:

• Protect against programmers mistakes, but not against programmers intent.

• Challenge everything. Think in first principles, reinvent everything.

• Unix and Windows are not the only operating systems. Look left and right of your daily path, you may find good ideas here and there.

• User experience matters more than you think.

• Accessibility cannot be added well in hindsight.

§2 Design Goals

• Make an operating system that COULD be used as a daily driver.

• Try to find new, exciting ways of doing things.

• Simple enough to be grasped by a single person.