I agree. These things aren't OS's. They're platform emulators that run using the low-level plumbing of actual OS's. Going from that to bare metal has been hard

I agree. These things aren't OS's. They're platform emulators that run using the low-level plumbing of actual OS's. Going from that to bare metal has been hard enough for hobbyists that many barely got anything done on it or didn't try. We should only call them OS's when they run on bare metal or something like VirtualBox.