Gekitsuu's Geekery

I've been reading the book Operating System Concepts which is a college book for computer science majors. I have been really enjoying the insight this book is giving me into my career. When you think about how an operating system handles communication between the various parts of the computer, it isn't a far stretch to view the "user" as another part of the system that needs a driver to interface properly. What makes a good userland driver is a subject of many debates. It's unreasonable for the user to have to adapt to the computer. I think the solution is to retrain how the companies developing operating systems think about the interface. The mentality seems to be that we will use what ever they produce because we have no choice. I think that someone should do research and begin developing a system for relating to a computer. You know what size shoes you wear, you know what size your clothes are, why not have a computer interface number. Something that would translate on all systems. I could log in to a system at a new job and punch in my number and instantly my new account on the system would get set up with preferences like, "I only like working with files in lists, not with icons". Many people who are not considered computer savvy probably have issues with the way they are required to interface with the computer and would get much more use out of it, if the computer had to adapt to them. This is something that would require a massive amount of work due to the diversity of peoples needs. The task is one the open source community could tackle if they had the backing of science institutions to provide guidance.