What is your favorite part about osdev?

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What is your favorite part about osdev?

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The title says it all.
Personally, its writing drivers and making a gui.
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My personal favorite part is how much it can teach someone.
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For me it's doing low-level things such as implementing my own interrupt handlers, CPU structures etc... That we do not touch when we are just programming a simple application on an OS.
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Knowing that everything is my code, seeing that it's possible to actually make your own operating system from scratch, and being able to try out your own ideas for operating system design.
When you start writing an OS you do the minimum possible to get the x86 processor in a usable state, then you try to get as far away from it as possible.

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Knowing there is no funny business going on in your code. This means a few things :lol:
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The best thing it that I am controlling the computer with my way.
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Is it just me or did everyone except for lkurusa express what's actually bad about OS development? :)
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It's just you.
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