Anii

Windows XP was released on October, 2001. It's now close to 2012 and I've yet to see a single distribution of Linux that's half as pretty or easy to use. To the end user this is all that matters yet programmers seem to only care about abstract bull shit and optimizing routines no one will use.

Don't do this.

Linux suffers from "Kernel Superiority Syndrome"
The system is built for the running the kernel, apps are secondary.
In real world, OSes are built to run real apps, and only toy kernels for compsci projects focus on the kernel itself.