An Attempt at a Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers

We’re living at an interesting time here in 2026, when microcontrollers are becoming powerful enough to surpass the capabilities of “real” computers from a time when those real computers were starting to become useful. We’ve seen plenty of microcontrollers emulating machines from the 1990s, but what if instead they were giving all their power to the OS? It’s a question [Thomas] is trying to answer with SylphideOS, a general purpose GUI operating system aimed at multiple microcontroller platforms