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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
by shp0ngle 5y ago
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.)
- nebula8804 5y agoIts 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
- shp0ngle 5y agoIsn't Android technically GNU/Linux? It has Linux kernel, but I am not sure about the GNU.
- hansel_der 5y agothe average phone has software with virtually every existing oss-license within and noone cares.
- einr 5y agoIn 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.