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Absolutely, but I feel like it's a technical term that might be hard to understand or advertise. When I explained the project to my non-technical friends before showing them, I told them "Ah, it's like an operating system" and they generally understood what I'm going for.

Is it a desktop environment in the Gnome or KDE sense? I didn’t see any third party programs in your trailer video so I guess you can only run your built-in “programs,” right? So I would say it is not really a desktop environment… I’m not sure what the technical definition is, but I must have something to do with acting as an environment to draw other programs.

Calling it a fake OS was, IMO, s great choice for avoiding confusion. Maybe something like Concept-OS or Desktop Environment Mockup could be good names if you want to be fancy.

How hard would it be to include a terminal emulator? You’d get a lot of functionality for free, there!

Desktop Environment is already taken by systems like Gnome and KDE. This is more like a mockup. The “concept car” of desktop environments. It is quite neat.

Yes