I mean, you gotta appeciate their efforts to make something so technical approachable by the general population, including gems like this in their Q&A: :-D: Wh

I mean, you gotta appeciate their efforts to make something so technical approachable by the general population, including gems like this in their Q&A: :-D: What is an operating system? An operating system (OS) is system software responsible for managing your computer hardware by abstracting it through a common interface, which can be used by the software running on top of it. Furthermore, the operating system decides how this hardware is shared by your software, and as such has access to all the data stored in your computer's memory. Thus, it is essential to isolate the operating system from the other programs running on the machine.