Solved Can a normal person go into hobby OSDev?

[Windidugo]

Can a normal computer user get interested in hobby OSDev (operating system development). I have no commercial aspirations, but I always dreamed of programming something.

 

[Alejandro85]

A mandatory link for this subject is precisely OSDev. You may want to carefully read most of its articles to get a clear idea of what you're against.

I would say that a "normal user" has NO chance of coming even close to a "hello world" OS developement .
The thing is, operating system development is probably the single most difficult experience in the programming world. If you have considerable experience in general programming, you might attempt to learn a bit of it and over time get to some more concrete result, but without development experience I would suggest to begin by something more simple and mundane.

Once you grasp the concepts and basic inner working of a computer it's a nice project to undertake, but take into account that's not easy at all. It could be very rewarding once you get something decent in place, though.

 

[Windidugo]

Thanks for the link. But I'm wondering, did you do this kind of project?