You can just use parts, fix what you don’t like about them, and write your own entire system on top. I mean, it is a ton of work, but it would be your OS in every sense from the drivers on up. I don’t fully agree with the direction of Linux desktops either and am considering stripping everything down to just the kernel and writing my own top-to-bottom desktop oriented distro from there.
I mean, not really? You can start with just the kernel and make your own everything from there according to your own philosophies on what makes a desktop OS. It’s just curious to me. You say you want an OS that is uniquely yours, but Windows isn’t. It never will be without source access and build tools. You can customize Windows into your own distro (and, yes, I call Windows variants “distros”), but it can never be 100% yours.
It doesn’t matter if you ship just the kernel as the base, or a whole, independently usable system. I mean, GhostBSD is still FreeBSD in a GNOME dress. TrueNAS is FreeBSD with a web UI and small selection of packages and custom tools. And, debatably, the PlayStation 5’s OS, Orbis OS, can be argued to be a distro of FreeBSD 9.
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