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In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were MacOS and Windows.

In the 2020s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers are MacOS and Windows.

(However, to be fair, all the rage is now in phones, where Windows is surprisingly non-existent. Apple's OS is still the other one, though.)



In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were MacOS and Windows.

There were at least real, meaningful attempts at competition in the consumer space with, most notably, OS/2 and BeOS. (OS/2 is seen as a commercial failure these days but quite a lot of people ran it.) MS-DOS from Microsoft was also competing with IBM PC DOS and Digital Research/Novell DR-DOS.

In the early 90s, Atari TOS, RISC OS and AmigaOS were not completely down for the count yet.

In the UNIX workstation market you still had SGI IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, and more.

Now, looking even in that space -- well, maybe there's a Linux box or two, but more likely you're going to find even more macOS and Windows.


Its all because RMS decided to eat that thing from his foot that one time. The world just couldn't stomach GNU/Linux after that. :P


Isn't Android technically GNU/Linux?

It has Linux kernel, but I am not sure about the GNU.


the average phone has software with virtually every existing oss-license within and noone cares.




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