The STRANGEST Operating System - TempleOS

[@EricParker]

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[@planesguineapigs1712]

I know he was mocked etc. by trolls and was seriously mentally ill, but clearly the fact he made this, on his own, from the ground up he was claraly skilled at programming. I mean making a Kernel, C Variant, JIT and some debugging isn't generally a single person job. Linux has thousands of people to do that

[@whohan779]

He literally has animations right in lines of text; and no they're not just a reinvention of GIFs, but actual vector graphics. Such a talented mind lost under such tragic circumstances.

[@xxXXuser69420XXxx]

what? in almost 10 years I haven't seen a single instance of King Terry being mocked or trolled, sure people would mention here and there his illness and the issues it brought, the closest thing to mocking I've seen is dismissing the OS as "a bad clone of DOS", he was and still is regarded as one of (if not The) greatest programmers in history

[@maxautism6602]

My favorite Terry quote; "I think teeth are the first reminder of mortality, I think that's when it begins to hit you - because they don't come back." R.I.P. Terry

[@TheManOfMostFaygo]

He said the hard r?

[@cometuserlolxd]

@@TheManOfMostFaygo who cares lmao

[@justinhamilton8647]

@@cometuserlolxdmaybe don’t take advice from a schizophrenic lol. You’d never say the hard r to anyone irl anyway, lil keyboard warrior

[@TheManOfMostFaygo]

@@cometuserlolxd You can't fucking say that word as a white?

[@Pepo..]

@@TheManOfMostFaygo that's my favorite

[@davedavington6998]

Rest in peace terry.

[@DobroslawFabian]

The os with no malware.

[@HuzaBird0.2]

Tru.

[@budgetarms]

just wait, ....

[@harythanossudibyo6993]

it has.

[@HuzaBird0.2]

@@harythanossudibyo6993 if it have viruses that are not dirty info stealers behause there is no networking and internet.

[@ДенисМетиль-щ9з]

This OS itself is actually a malware

[@JJFX-]

The sad reality is genius and insanity are close bed fellows. A lot of people misunderstand what TempleOS is. In many ways this is a one man skyscraper in the form of a love letter to computer science and programming. Despite its obvious quirks, I don't think there's a serious coder out there who doesn't have ton of respect for what he was able to accomplish. I'm just thankful he shared it with all of us and it's not just buried on old hard drives that'll never the light of day again. I'm sure there are a number of mind blowing projects by brilliant, troubled people that will be forever lost.

[@AzzieEquinox]

I hope that one day we find a permanent cure for schizophrenia. Terry really was an extremely intelligent person with many thought provoking things to say. It's a shame that his lucid moments have gone under the radar for the most part, though.

[@qvaras]

rip to the legendary terry davis.

[@Ippo209]

“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius” ―Terry Davis, Creator of Temple OS

[@magorzatamargaret294]

He was totally right!!! I didn't know this man but by his words I can see very clearly that he exactly knew what he was talking about!

[@dvsur]

Eric Parker, Enderman, Ringway Manchester, NTTS

[@OwO2L]

i don't understand what this comment means and why eric parker liked it, some help pls?

[@dvsur]

@@OwO2L because these are the best channels for internet things 🤌

[@火十]

@@OwO2L 4 different youtube creators

[@OwO2L]

@@火十 were they mentioned because they covered TempleOS?

[@ijustlovebirds]

@@OwO2L they are also very similar in video topics if i recall

[@the-answer-is-42]

Temple OS is quite interesting. As is the programming language it uses, called Holy C. Iirc, you can actually embed 3D models directly into the Holy C source code and stuff like that. You can see this at around 6:58.

[@JJFX-]

Yeah that blew my mind. I absolutely love when developers give the middle finger to conventional thinking. "Why can't I have assets rendered in the source code?" "Because we don't do that." "Well then I'm doing it."

[@vinylsprakle]

not a day goes by where i don't miss terry

[@NeoVei]

rip

[@sick_icarus]

I appreciate people being understanding of this man given his illness. I watched a video on him before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia myself. I empathized with him before, but having experienced psychotic breaks I now know what it’s like to have your mind turn against you. I’m glad his accomplishments are celebrated today.

[@vidal9747]

I hope you get better! Remember to keep away from conspiracy theories or stuff that can feed your illness!

[@magorzatamargaret294]

Try Selfhealing of BSM method - it is available in English. I know it for 30 years - it works fast, no side effects if you use it correctly. Cheap. I dont know if it helps butit helps to heal nearly everything they call ''impossible to heal'' ;)

[@awesomekalin55]

2025 Year of the TempleOS Desktop

[@cocusar]

You know, he made a physics simulation app for Windows, in the 9x era, which was just amazing. I could have been so happy with that app back in the 2000s, like seriously. I think he used a lot of the routines for the physics engine of said app throughout the entire TempleOS' games. But seriously, that app even comes with a language interpreter for custom behaviors of physics objects, just amazing.

[@VERTIGO1337]

"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." RIP Terry Davis

[@gx2music]

The guy gave us the term “glowie” , and just that alone is enough to rightly claim legendary status. Terry gave us more though. Lots more. Beyond legendary. RIP you absolute unit.

[@Muhammad-re4wk]

People still discovering TempleOS in 2024 is wild

[@gorillagroddgaming]

They glow in the dark

[@AgentAsteriski]

1:18 based, when you're responsible for your own hardware, drive letters are the way

[@TecraTube]

BEST OS EVER.

[@Cloud67TR]

wait, what gnu/linux distro you use? (now currently im using arch [btw])

[@bluebutterfly6394]

Garuda

[@alexki3135]

Mint

[@noobwaredlx]

but I use Ubuntu

[@iennefaLsh]

arch btw :3

[@eMorphized]

Normally, Fedora. Right now, MinGW GNU/NT

[@cybernit3]

I think he died by committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a train up in Oregon, so sad; he should have got help or housing. I think after his parents died he fell apart. RIP TERRY...

[@xxXXuser69420XXxx]

Nice try glowie

[@Iceidice]

The greatest programmer who ever lived!

[@LandyRShambles]

Very fun intersection of my interests here. Terry had a lot going on, but what he was making here is really interesting and it's a shame he left us so abruptly.

[@rob-h1u]

You should take a look at third party anti cheat solutions (known as scanners) most prevalent in gaming communities such as Minecraft and FiveM (a modded version of GTA V) See what kind of stuff they try to pull.

[@altair1337]

God's lonely programmer

[@ChaunceyGardener]

0:09 - "Created by a single man who suffered from schizophrenia hence the religious aspects" 🤣By this definition most of the world population should be in a psychiatric ward.

[@jeepsyk7289]

*tips Fedora Linux*

[@ax23mgh8]

Definitely the arabic part of the world should be.

[@chri-k]

that's not how logic works

[@vidal9747]

Prophets visions were basically this. Religion probably started as schizophrenic people taken seriously

[@golangismyjam]

Somebody that talks to themselves, believes in things that are scientifically impossible and thinks there's somebody watching them at all times. Religion is just a socially accepted mental illness that is spread via indoctrination from parent to child.

[@jaakkolehto1487]

This is a channel I check everyday, in case youtube didn't notify me of a new video!

[@perryplatypus937]

i loved terry davis and his rants

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

this operating system was made in an "ISO of god"

[@mateboros952]

If I remember right it has network just for local and he used for FTP thats why Downloads folder there.

[@clubpenguin_idk]

off topic what vm do you use?

[@EricParker]

Pretty much everything. KVM / Qemu, vmware, and Hyper-V occasionally (IE the cod video). In this one i started with KVM but when it didn't work I used VMware.

[@HuzaBird0.2]

You can write code in cmd and run it directly.

[@wisteela]

It also works in VirtualBox. It's a really weird, but very impressive OS.

[@Therealbubbafrog420]

R.I.P Terry Davis king of programing

[@Graahk-r8u]

RIP Terry.

[@herpmcderp5707]

I agree, drive letters do make alot of sense as a user.

[@YaySyu]

You like the drive letter system? That was one of the things I hated the most of windows. To be fair I didnt bother to learn about filesystems and hierarchy until diving into linux

[@xxXXuser69420XXxx]

/mnt/ supremacy

[@average_ms-dos_enjoyer]

This reminds me a bit of Ken Silverman's EVALDRAW but on a much deeper level

[@lockout5731]

one OS that's weird and funny you should do more content like this i find this entertaining and great

[@YaySyu]

No internet? NO MALWARE Im in

[@widget347U]

Make a new vid on astolfo plz

[@mahkhardy8588]

Fascinating story about the TempleOS guy.

[@DaRedBedKid]

where is the iso file

[@GoldDominik893]

your pc is insane

[@lukey9191]

Nothing better to do than kill time with Mr. God

[@dave7244]

RIP King Terry 👑

[@prohax1]

how much does brilliant pay vro to be in every video

[@66NZ66]

hey .. no body leaves the temple without being amaZed , even from there god talks !

[@66NZ66]

Praised Be Allah

[@psySmeerN]

This is the last hope when the AI takes over the world.

[@PandaXpress668]

RIP Terry

[@Cristian248WasTaken]

Rip terry

[@xsonority]

rip terry

[@convictivn]

Terry Davis my king

[@vaibhavmishra5179]

Rest in peace Terry ❤💐🕊️

[@ArtisticTrex54]

I remember when Druaga1 made a video on this a few years ago.

[@grigmax]

rip terry davis

[@luigimario8001]

Hey Eric, try out ReactOS next!

[@TheBenSanders]

That's weird that QEMU didn't work for you. I know Mental Outlaw did a video using it.

[@gairisiuil]

Terry made a post to reddit around 2010 (i think) saying it now worked with QEMU, lol

[@Pandacier]

If you use TempleOS you are 🗿

[@jonathans.5663]

All hail King Terry!

[@cip83gl]

Hello, can u make a vid on how to turn off efficiency mode windows 11 permanently? 10x

[@ric1337]

Bro wtf is up your mic? It sounds like you’re speaking under water 😭😂

[@miasma82]

He was a visionary

[@Apollo-333]

Love this channel

[@vidal9747]

Seeing these cases I sometimes ask myself if the profets of old weren't just schizophrenic people who got taken seriously.

[@Xvladin]

Probably not the real ones, like Jesus, the Buddha, etc. They have a coherent narrative and lessons that are constantly in their teachings. The ramblings of a genuine schizophrenic are significantly disjointed, and even if there are some threads or themes to follow, they're often contradicted and not genuinely useful or super well thought out. I could definitely see the archetype of the tribal shaman coming from schizoid thinking.

[@broisvoldemort]

TEMPLE OS 🔥

[@Soda22]

You should look into the forks, someone made a gaming engine inside templeOS

[@eMorphized]

Most of them sorta secularize the OS, adding segmentation, hardware acceleration, networking, things like that. And I fully support that, but it's not quite TOS anymore.

[@tweet_thebird668]

Glory to the King

[@kwak_tissue]

Does it contain malware?

[@309electronics5]

Nope! It might look weird and freaky but terry davis was religious and of course would never embed any harm into it nor any malware. He made it "to represent gods 3rd temple" Cause in his schizophrenic years he believed in things like god and believed god was talking to him via some pseudo random words generator embedded into his os

[@danielk7165]

TEMPLE RUNNN

[@hunterhess8433]

God bless him

[@scoliosissy]

Terry 😍

[@GriffinForte]

Wah

[@cinderwolf32]

An incredible accomplishment. Let's not forget that he was a racist who loved using slurs to "combat psychological warfare"

[@vidal9747]

I think his paranoia and schizophrenia contributed to this. I am not saying he was perfect, but his conditions make me cut some slack. But I am happy you can separate the work from the author. My college recently moved the 100 years of quantum mechanics celebration to another year because Schrödinger was a PDF file. While he was horrible, his work was fantastic and is still teached everywhere.