Seeing as Linux didn’t exist in 1990, it would have been an exceptionally poor choice. Early distros were pretty rough, but honestly by 93/94 it was reasonably

Seeing as Linux didn’t exist in 1990, it would have been an exceptionally poor choice. Early distros were pretty rough, but honestly by 93/94 it was reasonably useful and, if you didn’t have defective hardware, which was a huge problem at the time, quite stable.