I Keep Trying to Prove ShrekOS Doesn't Need to Exist

I have no idea what I'm f*cking doing. Something I keep questioning: Why the hell am I building an operating system for this? Seriously. Every couple of weeks I look at ShrekOS, look at the amount of work involved in building an actual Linux distribution, and have basically the same reaction. This is f*cking ridiculous. I wanted a safer way to run AI agents on my computer. Somehow that turned into an immutable Debian system with isolated workloads, capability grants, controlled egress, verified updates, a desktop policy layer, an installer, and enough architecture documents to make me question every decision that led me here. There has to be an easier answer. There has to be some tool I missed. Run the agents in Docker. Use Podman. Use a VM. Use a better agent harness. Install some security middleware. Find a desktop application that manages all of this. Anything other than: Build a f*cking operating system. So I keep trying to prove that ShrekOS does not need to exist. And the annoying part is that every time I do, I eventually end up back at the same problem. I already know containers exist I already wrote the technical version of this question in Why I'm Building ShrekOS When Containers Already Exist . I am not going to repeat that whole argument here. Containers are useful. I use them. The Bench system in ShrekOS literally runs on rootless container technology. I did not invent a magical new isolation primitive because AI showed up. Namespaces exist. Seccomp exists. Landlock exists. Containers exist. Virtual machines exist. Linux already has an absurd number of ways to restrict a process. That is not the thing I keep getting stuck on. The thing I cannot seem to find is the user space around all of it . Not userspace in the kernel terminology sense. I mean the actual space where the human uses the computer. The desktop. The workflow. The place where I can run several autonomous things on my machine and understand, at a glance, what each one is allowed to do. I wa