[digitalsankhara]

Have you heard of PickOS [0]? Maybe similar to what you are describing. I admit I just read the first couple of paragraphs of the article and thought, yeah - PickOS vibes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

[kcartlidge]

I was a Pick user back in the late 1980s and that was, indeed, my first thought too.