alt Hacker News> A few months work by one guy and already more capable than the Hurd
It is no way capable than Hurd. It is a cool project though. Have you used Hurd recently? It can run a modern desktop.
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amszmidt • 04/25/2025
FWIW, GNU/Hurd has been able to run a desktop environment the last 20+ years.
And as someone who portedgor Doom working on GNU/Hurd decades ago … I’m going to wager that the GP has never used it. :-)
I searched YouTube for actual evidence of Hurd booting to a desktop and only found two videos of Hurd freezing during boot, and a third video of RMS explaining to a very confused convention attendee that he's "never installed GNU slash lynn-ox" because he could just ask someone else to do it.
No videos of Hurd running Doom either, but anyone is welcome to create one and share.