Most Popular Computer Operating Systems 1985 - 2024

[@mahdyfo]

All of my memories passed in front of my eyes in this 7 minutes video.

[@CoqueTornado]

🥲

[@kholeu]

The MS-DOS comeback at the end was pretty unexpected

[@8001010]

No so strange, OS ecosystem is only apple/Linux/windows today, and gizmo take 10 bar in graph (and he differentiate mac osx and windows version)

[@amb1u5]

Not really, Alot of old machines still run dos, last week I had to fix an old cnc that was running msdos and pascal

[@MrVariant]

4:15 windows '95 in the late 2000's as well lol some like old software

[@8001010]

@@amb1u5 the difficult is define "computer operating system"(and define what is linux), in my opinion only desktop/laptop should be included: appliance,industrial machines,servers,tablet, smartphone,smartwatch,smart-TV ,game console, should be excluded from "computer" definition.

[@amb1u5]

@8001010 yeah if we didn't define it as PC's and laptops we would see Linux derivatives possibly dominating the market. As for what defines Linux, I would only go for the obvious as there are some obscure distros out there that are truly the bastard child of 2 or 3 parent operating systems.

[@cjsvinyl]

Something tells me a lot of those Windows 10 users were people such as myself that logged into their computer one morning expecting Windows 7 but instead suddenly saw Windows 10.

[@roderickmain9697]

Our IT department didnt want to go to 10 at all and new laptops were downgraded from 10 to 7. It wasnt until I pointed out that some of the stuff we were marketing would be run on brand new laptops outside the company that they all started to "panic" (they tested it on Win 10 - it didnt work!)

[@bla2030]

Exactly. Forced “upgrade”. Microsoft, I never managed to sympathise their policies.

[@madprunes]

Same thing with a lot of people from 10 to 11, 11, is like the windows ME/Vista/8 equivelant

[@CNC-Time-Lapse]

@@madprunesyes, 1000% agree.

[@TomHommus]

​@@roderickmain9697 you shouldn't need to downgrade. If you're working in a company (that is not for private use) it should have been imaged with a SOE - standard operating environment basically a Microsoft windows image + whatever customisations your company uses. We had people do that using Microsoft System Center configuration manager and more recently Microsoft intune. You can customise everything there including which Microsoft updates are deployed, when they're deployed and which computers or users they will be deployed to. You wouldn't be using the stock os provided with the computer

[@st.altair4936]

Funny how the release of Windows 11 immediately caused a surge in Linux users That's when I switched to Linux too lol

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Why?

[@sys_key3287]

​@@MichaelJohnsonAzgardwin 11 is an ass reskin of 10

[@parkerbohnn]

I just bought a more expensive computer with a threadripper cpu and 128 gigabytes of ram.

[@sys_key3287]

@@parkerbohnn nobody cares, mental outlaw has the same cpu and it runs fine on his linux system

[@donngg]

I just keep using Windows 10

[@GregAckerson]

I recently switched from Windows 11 to Linux Mint. It's been great!

[@SonicFreak77]

Same, but 10 to arch. What a ride, but worth it.

[@supernova_ultra]

Me reverse. DFrom Windows 11 to Linux Ubunru

[@woodenmonkeyfox]

Same but Windows 11 to Pop!_OS

[@MelissaDorthman-cz9iq]

😂 This is How Linux Kids be...

[@parkerbohnn]

That's because Windows 11 is a pig.

[@charlesballard5251]

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for WinXP. It was just a STABLE operating system in my experience. And so many great games were written for it.

[@d0s25]

It’s OS/2 for me. I was really saddened when the horrible DOS based Win 3.x won the race.

[@chezchezchezchez]

That’s how I feel about AmigaOS

[@veritechace6181]

Did you notice that Windows ME wasn't even mentioned? Maybe they lumped that in with '98

[@mychanejhg]

Stable xd i remembered i need to format and reinstall windows xp 4 times each month

[@ralanham76]

Umm after the many patches!

[@jantack7186]

The ups and downs of Linux surprised me: 2005 > 2%, 2008 > 2.5%, 2011 < 1%, 2018 > 2% 2023 > 3% 2024 prob. > 4% I am already looking forward to the Linux reaching the 5% mark in the next 2 years.

[@kernelpanic-x64]

I am more asking why it wasn't more poplar before the 2000s compared to others.

[@jantack7186]

@@kernelpanic-x64 Before Ubuntu introduced automatic hardware detection to the Linux world, Desktop-Linux installation was only for computer scientists. I tried to install SUSE in the late 90s. Because the Internet was too slow, you needed 5 CDs. And durring the installation you had to keep changing CDs. The order was not CD1,2,3,4,5 but something like 1,2,3,2,3,1,4,5,2... The installation process installed almost all the software available for the system and it took hours and always ended with a cryptic error message. Linux was not very accessible for beginners back then. I don't like Ubuntu anymore, but I have to admit, that Canonical has done a lot to make Linux more popular and fun.

[@kernelpanic-x64]

@@jantack7186 so, you are young 😀 I started with 1.44" disks. There was a copy station in one of our local book stores where you can get the disks created. 44 of them were required for the default distribution (an early version of SuSe). And you always prayed that none of them failed. Nightmare having one disk corrupted after a 2 hour installation.

[@deineroehre]

On important servers, especially public ones, there is already 90% market share for Linux. Linux just works, Apple and Microsoft are based mostly on pure Marketing and persuation, perhaps bribing. Several companys evaluate Linux even on the desktop due to the poor Updates for "the last windows ever". Windows 10.1 (marketing speech: Windows 11) just crossed the red line with the need for an useless microsoft account, persuading users to put their Data on Onedrive despite having a professional solution like Nextcloud on the computer. This breaks compliance. Since an OS is just a start-ramp to mostly webbased applications nowadays, it doesn't really matter if the clients run on windows, Linux, McOs or even Chromebooks. Obsolete Windows-only legacy software can be used in Terminal servers until the software manufacturer has a webbased application ready or has done his homework and made his software available cross-platform. Or they learn it the hard way and go out of business in 5-10 years since there won't be any computers in companys left were you can install Windows-only software.

[@wearegeek]

Everytime Microsoft fucked up, Linux got more traction. But seriously, with the state of Linux nowadays, why aren;t more people using it and why aren't hardware vendors installing it by default, or at least as an option? Valve has showed us that it can be done.

[@ContantContact]

I ditched Windows 2.5 years ago, moving to Linux Mint. I am not going back. The move was well worth it.

[@Tux.Penguin]

Same story just a few years ahead of you. I see no reason to ever go back to Microsoft.

[@carlnorris2392]

I never knew Microsoft released Windows 2.5, I thought they stopped at 2.1

[@Tux.Penguin]

@@carlnorris2392 the “2.5” modifies the word “years”, not “Windows”

[@D_Greg_D]

Used Windows for all of my life. Went to Linux (Linux Mint) in April 2023 and I have no reason to come back, it works perfectly. P. S. For me personally, of course. There are still some hardware compatibility issues and quite a lot of software still doesn't support Linux but I'm glad to see that these issues slowly become less common which is the reason why Linux is rising.

[@matthewbarabas3052]

i tried linux repeatedly throughout the years. i couldn't use it for anything but the most basic of basic things because there was nothing on it. so, i went back to windows.

[@moebiewu5662]

Touched Linux for the first time in 2015 when I was in Grade 5, on a server... Then tried it a few times on my laptop since 2018 but soon switched back to Windows each time, until finally settled down in Linux in 2021 and now all of my computers run Linux.

[@thorstenl.4928]

@@matthewbarabas3052 „there was nothing on it“? Its up to you to put things on it. But only things you really need…

[@D_Greg_D]

@@matthewbarabas3052 Have you tried Linux Mint?

[@matthewbarabas3052]

@@thorstenl.4928 one consenquence for a very, very, obscure desktop OS is that there would be nothing on it. compared to windows, or even a mac. whens the last time you tried using a windows phone? how many things are on that?

[@zarjesve2]

Atari TOS gave birth to many todays top notch applications! Like 3D Studio Max, Cubase, Logic…

[@chezchezchezchez]

Obviously, you never owned amiga

[@zarjesve2]

@@chezchezchezchez Why you say something like this? I did own, and I own today several Amigas...!

[@falkerhard]

@@zarjesve2 Because he's a commodasshole

[@crinolynneendymion8755]

@@zarjesve2 Amiga/Atari wars, so intense!

[@zarjesve2]

@@crinolynneendymion8755 @chezchezchezchez replay is testimony to this fact... :D

[@PolarCheese]

The penguin is cooking something.

[@ThomasVWorm]

Yes: the Internet and Smartphones.

[@paulmark992]

N00t N00t

[@fidelquintela7128]

woo hoo!

[@chetanghadge3075]

Only TUX...

[@1337Shockwav3]

The way Windows has been going I can totally see it taking the permanent second spot within the next 5-10 years.

[@manu55pool]

I must say that my favorites are XP and Vista, although I don't know if they are better, now I'm trying the pro version of Windows 11 to see how it is.

[@Melissalove44]

It marked me and I don't know if it's for good or worse, Windows 7, I'm not sure about that, and where did you get the pro version?

[@manu55pool]

BNH Software I got it there and well I think that some version of Windows will have marked us at some point in our lives

[@Melissalove44]

It has caught my attention lately, let's see if I try it and see some improvement.

[@manu55pool]

I'm just trying it out to give you some conclusions.

[@Melissalove44]

don't worry

[@kumarnkvc]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="386">6:26</a> Vista gets beaten by MS-DOS. Most satisfying 😂

[@rdrhouse]

vista was shite, XP forever.

[@zackakai5173]

@@rdrhouse As someone who *actually* used Vista for several years (as opposed to just parroting memes on the internet about it), it was a perfectly fine operating system once the major bugs were ironed out and computers actually had enough RAM and processing power to handle it. It was so fine, in fact, that Microsoft would later make a few tweaks to it and basically re-released it as Windows 7. If you used 7, you basically used Vista.

[@rdrhouse]

@@zackakai5173 Oh Zack, you think you're the only one that had to put up with Vista and have a viewpoint on it. I'm guessing you're American, as to hold those blinkered views as a brit is just unforgivable. "once the major bugs were ironed out" and "that Microsoft would later make a few tweaks to it" sounds like a wonderfull 'out of the box' OS. You need to burst that bubble you live in and take a look at the world we live in before making such ridiculous comments.

[@TarHelcaraxe]

Video was probably made by an indian that's why.

[@rdrhouse]

@@KC-shunting isn't it strange when someone has to ignore all relevant facts and insist they are right, shows such a lack of integrity. I can use the internet on my 1.8ghz pentium running XP that i use to control my CNC machinery, but what does that prove, absolutely nothing. No one needs to troll you as your bad enough on your own. PS., check what trolling is, you will find it fits your comments more than mine.

[@BluketNaga]

that 0.2% of MS-DOS people: "I ALWAYS COMEBACK" edit: 1 MONTH AND WE ARE CLOSE TO 1K LETS GO BOYS other edit: yey 1k likes tysm!

[@RafitoOoO]

MS-DOS is immortal

[@StrsAmbrg]

i have no idea how that content creator knew that a computer is running DOS as mostly we know today the OS percentage is from internet access. I am sure that no people are using DOS for the internet.

[@valentinhalau3396]

you mean "i always come back", learn first grade english please

[@jarekb7855]

Why? ​@@StrsAmbrg

[@BluketNaga]

k@@valentinhalau3396

[@r.a.6459]

Currently using 7 XP filled my teenage years 98 made my childhood And was old enough to see 3.11

[@ClifffSVK]

98 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 + Linux -> 10 + Linux. Still have 10 installed but don't use it.

[@fakesky64b]

MS-DOS > Millenium > XP > 7 > 10 > MacOS Catalina > 10 again > Linux

[@Erknar]

I started with MS-DOS 4.01 & Win 2.1 in 1990 or 1991, throughout the years I've worked with MS-DOS 5, 6, 6.22, Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, NT4, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP, skipped Vista but had to deal with it on my parents Computer. Win 7, personally skipped 8 and 8.1 entirely, worked with 10 and 11. Also I experimented with Server 2003 (Standard & Enterprise Edition as well as Enterprise x64 and Win XP x64)

[@fastertove]

I've used win98, winMe, win2k, xp, win7, win10 and win11 on my own computers. Win98 and winMe on my first hardware, which was an already used AMDk6-2 350Mhz with voodoo 3-2000. I never personally had any major issues with WinMe, but it did use a little more ram.

[@byllisbasilis2851]

Using Windows 7 is pretty dangerous nowdays cause of lack of security updates many malicious programmers can write a virus where with a command from the internet can infect with ransomware,or malware all the computers using windows 7 connected on the internet.

[@qdaniele97]

It's crazy that Linux adoption was at 3.9% four months ago and has now (august) reached 4.5%

[@quintas22]

most of linux users are not counted, because most times we need to buy a pc with windows instaled (and paid), for the next moment format and put linux. Is not less than 15% of domestic share today.

[@ReptilianLaserbeam]

The new forced features that might be coming to Windows and MacOS to track every step you take is what made it change. I think it will go up to 5% before the year ends

[@thaironnemelo]

Remembering that ChromeOS is Linux too...

[@edybtt]

Well, because of Steam Deck, with Linux os

[@grrcat616]

When Microsoft kills the support of Win 10 I think Linux is going to jump higher. I have a laptop with Win 10 that can't be upgraded to 11 and it is a great laptop and I'm not going to get rid of it just because they stop support on 10. Laziness has kept me from switching, so Microsoft kills that support and light that fire under me! Also no way I'm buying my parents a Win 11 PC when support ends, I did it when Win 7 support ended. They either deal with Linux or get one of their other children to get them a new computer. Either way I'm still tech support.

[@jeffcook3747]

It's amazing to see how much of a juggernaut DOS was for so long. Add onto that all the Win 3.x installations that needed DOS. I remember my copy of Win95 needed to 'see' that you had DOS so I had to feed it a DOS 6.22 floppy to let it finish installation.

[@TheRezro]

Win 95, 98 and Milenium were actually DOS addons. Not actual systems. Not many people know but NT windows have still build in DOS emulators. When black window sometimes pop up when you install things on Windows 10... that is DOS.

[@Bateluer]

​@@TheRezro Partially correct. For win95, 98, and ME, they indeed ran on top of MSDOS. Part of the reason for MEs instability was the removable of most of the dos components without a proper replacement. For NT based Windows though, including XP, vista, 7, 8, 10, & 11, there is no MSDOS. That black window that pops up is simply a command line interface, not the MSDOS operating system.

[@lexlayabout5757]

@@Bateluer Correct. Many people call any command line interface "DOS" like they call any vacuum flask a "Thermos". But unlike the Themos flask, DOS was not the first OS to have a command line interface, any more than Gates invented computers, and that interface has since been left far behind except in emulations.

[@jurgenbachmann5920]

Badest Win10 best Win XP

[@jandenijmegen5842]

@@jurgenbachmann5920 You never used windows 1. Total crap.

[@CapnCoconuts]

> 3.9% market share The year of the Linux desktop is coming, my friends

[@pilsnerd420]

Already switched a decade ago. Windows is now pretty much just my 'Xbox" partition.

[@zaax]

They need to sort out the basic stuff like Scanner and external drive access. and a hot drive swap fault

[@kaia.giermann5239]

At home: Linux only!

[@rdrhouse]

which year is that going to be

[@scottstensland]

have used linux as daily driver for 15 years only use osx to push iOS to app store windows only to help friends ... when neighbors need a windows fix I install Ubuntu onto their machines and they luv it

[@morghulorevil6522]

AmigaOS still has the most beautiful UI, the screen management system is pure genius. I had so much fun to code under AmigaOS with 68000. AmigaOS the best OS forever.

[@Traumatree]

Not counting how 68000 memory management was/is miles ahead of x86 and their big-endian bit register order that was a real mess. I wish that cpu was still alive today.

[@JoaoVentura]

I don't get the moment in June 88 where TOS overtakes the AmigaOS. Both machines were at their best at that moment. This probably shows the US numbers only for those machines and does not include the European markets. Europe did not get the Nintendo Entertainment System invasions, so we used real computers for quite some time as a games platform.

[@vetodrom]

@@JoaoVentura ... apart from that, the triumph of the Amiga with the A500 in Europe only really took off in 1987.

[@BartechTV]

@@JoaoVentura Yeah it's definitely just showing the US market share. I was at school around '90 and literally everyone I knew had an Amiga or an Atari ST, there was like one kid with a PC. But this graph shows MS-DOS on 62%, Amiga on 0.7%, and Mac on 5%. In the UK it was more like Amiga 50%, PC 5%, Atari ST 30% and the rest were still on 8-bit computers. Nobody had a Mac. Macs were used for Desktop Publishing and that's it.

[@JoaoVentura]

@@BartechTV Yeah, and in Europe, I personally feel it was the other way around than in this graph. The ST started out the most popular one (and far cheaper), but by the time 1989 came around, the Amiga really took off (Batman pack helped a lot), and most likely only then passed the ST's market share, and remained above the ST until both platforms basically died together in 1993/94 like the siamese twins they were. I don't agree so much with the 5% PC market share you indicate. For games in 1989? Sure! But by then Lotus 1-2-3 (the real murderer of the Amiga) was surely used by most accountants in Europe.

[@CallousCoder]

I’ve been a Unix guy since 1990 and a Linux guy since 1995. There simply is no OS mote versatile as Unix/Linux. It runs on the biggest and smallest devices. Its architecture simplicity makes it easy to understand from user space all the way down to the kernel.

[@mercurywoodrose]

You are of course, correct even Apple adopted a modified UNIX core

[@SeanCC]

@@mercurywoodrose even Windows, which is based on NT, got its kernel based on Mach.

[@whohan779]

I just love it when (rather detailed) usage and vending stats go into the compilation of such videos. Soothing

[@lankimanc]

LINUX! 💪🏼 Never lost and coming back strong.

[@Traumatree]

What is missing on that chart are all the VMs in the world running Linux as backend server for some Internet services...

[@DerJoe92]

​@@Traumatree or Smartphones. Or embedded systems. Intel-based Computer Mainboards habe embedded chips that run Minix which makes it one of the widest distributed systems ever. Still, hardly anyone has ever heard of it. Such comparisons are hardly any useful if you dont specify the boundaries of what you are actually comparing. Still interesting, though ;)

[@bennri]

@@DerJoe92 Many embedded systems run windows CE

[@RobertBoston-n4d]

And until the guys that are working on it collectively grow up is will be short lived.

[@DerJoe92]

@@bennri that is true. I see Windows error messages popping up quite regularly on screens in trains and busses ;)

[@CelentAle]

However, the Amiga taught everyone, for Desktop native and multitask, 3D Lightwave , Gui, plugin, graphics, High resolution, and more.👍 Amiga for ever

[@burnttoast111]

I think the Amiga was great in it's day, but interlaced graphics are a downside.

[@Dave-PL]

@@burnttoast111 So, look on Windows 1.x and you will see OS in grayscale colors only when Amiga Workbench has 16-32 colors.

[@burnttoast111]

@@Dave-PL Screw using Windows 1. Lots of bugs, including memory problems. I didn't touch Windows before 3, as I had zero interest in it from what I had heard. XP was the first Windows I was really happy with, not saying it didn't have some issues. It's weird you seem to think if I criticize a particular OS, I have to defend every OS from Microsoft. Why is that? Don't put anything on a pedestal my friend. You will only be disappointed.

[@Dave-PL]

@@burnttoast111 I mean you can't compare shitty Windows 1 to great Amiga Workbench, which offer multitasking and great tools and hardware at that time.

[@burnttoast111]

@@Dave-PL I didn't, if you couldn't notice. Somehow people get super butthurt if you point out a flaw in something. You would be perfect cult material, if you weren't already in a cult.

[@Gadgetonomy]

Windows 95. That start-up sound always gives me a blast of nostalgia whenever I hear it now.

[@napnip]

Switched to Linux a few years back and have never regretted it. Right now running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it's running surprisingly stable for a rolling release.

[@grauwolf1604]

QpenSuse… I will look for it!

[@GaryCameron]

Rocking Linux Mint the past 8-10 years.

[@jamesstewart5005]

I'm using Neon and Mint on my desktops and laptops at the moment. Many different ones on my servers. At this point there aren't many really bad experiences to be had in the world of mainline Linux distros.

[@quemaspana]

Linux has gotten more and more stable.

[@napnip]

@@quemaspana I think it depends on the "flavor" of Linux. Linux itself (the kernel) has been incredibly stable since almost Day 1. Some distros are extremely stable and have been for a long time. (Debian being probably first on the list.) Other distros, such as rolling release versions, are considered less stable because they are typically "bleeding edge" software and haven't gone through as much testing. However, I'm having a tremendous amount of luck with OpenSuse Tumbleweed, a rolling release model. (OpenSuse Leap is their static version, and has had a tremendous reputation for being extremely stable for a long time now.) 🙂

[@leokimvideo]

Windows XP was amazing, only thing that killed it off was Microsoft stopped supporting it. Windows Vista was such a balls up train wreck it had me move to MacOS

[@aocleader7950]

I have a brand new computer I put windows xp on it this is 2024 and you know what it's faster with xp than the windows 10 it came with stopping support dosent matter when the end product is complete it no longer needs support

[@jimmybellmon1268]

I have a bunch of old PCs and laptops, most of them are running XP, the other half running Linux

[@crossover5606]

XP was amazing for its time and I loved it, but it would be boring to use today. Just that the fact that it doesn't have a basic search bar when you press the Start button is a turn off for me.

[@parkerbohnn]

The 64 bit version but the 64 bit programs some of them didn't run properly as the switch to 64 bit was still in its infancy.

[@honkhonkler7732]

XP would've died anyway because of the need to use over 4GB of RAM. The real artificial death here is Windows 7.

[@HarkoretoDaBone-nf7ff]

The 90s was the golden era of personal computing. I'm so glad to get the chance of experiencing it. It helped me to keep up with all the technology changes.

[@Traumatree]

That was the 80s my friend, when cie forged our future we have today. The 90s was the era of Internet for everyone.

[@HarkoretoDaBone-nf7ff]

If you want to be pedantic, sure. My point was actually about how early adoption helped me to not fall behind with tech

[@markmuller7962]

Dude I was there, there was nothing special about it

[@Hr1s7i]

So, what is the current era? Platinum?

[@HarkoretoDaBone-nf7ff]

@@Hr1s7i titanium

[@bbellefson]

Win 7 at home and MacOS Snow Leopard at work. The only 2 truly stable OS's in my long experience. I remember going almost 2 YEARS without a crash with Snow Leopard and the Adobe CS6 suite. Sigh.... those days are loooong gone.

[@papeleradereciclaje4375]

RIP to all the OSes that have fallen out of relevance 😥

[@kevinstefanov2841]

Dont let "popularity" fool you, its nothing. There are operating systems not on this graph at all that you couldn't live your normal life without. For example IBM's z/OS currently runs at least 80% of the world's financial transactions

[@AEGISAOE]

@@kevinstefanov2841 discord is on another world more popular than guilded, while guilded is on another world more advanced (and fully free) than discord. This applies to many other social apps, cars, airplanes and everything else. All the lies marketers give us, selling their products and making us believe just because they sold the most, they are the best, lol

[@betag24cn]

amiga, commodore, kinda sad, but life goes on

Not exactly... I'm still using (among others): C64 KERNAL, Atari 8-bit, Amiga DOS, TOS, classic MacOS (mostly 7.x), RISC OS etc...

[@betag24cn]

@ as daily drivers, of curse, on production machines😅

[@holdvilagarok]

I have been infected by my IT teacher in 2002 with Linux. I thank him for this. Since 2004 I use dual-boot systems, make run Linux and beside a Windows only for games. For daily use is only Linux. I encourage everybody to try it, its so easy to use nowdays. 😊 Linux Mint is a perfect choice for beginners.

[@goku445]

Nice!

[@The-Purple-Fox-Q]

Linux Mint has been my main OS for almost 20 years, I have a mac mini m1 chip with lated Mac OS but I use it about 5 %of the time.

[@geuros]

Did the same, only I'm running Arco Linux, which is basically a bit more user friendly Arch, 100% compatible with Arch, pacman and everything. Bugs that exist on Windows for years were gone the second I booted up, I was like "SO IT WAS MICROSOFT'S FAULT AFTER ALL!!"

[@hugoboss8967]

Hey ! I don't use Linux OS but ReviOS who a simplified OS of Microsoft target to the gamers

[@veritechace6181]

I went full Penguin this year. I jumped from Windows after reading the Windows 11 TOS, and seeing all the spyware Microsoft put on it. Shutting down Cortana completely was difficult enough in Win10; Windows 11 takes it to a whole new level. Now that Steam's Steamdeck is doing well, I think we're going to see a big growth spurt in Linux. Pretty much all of the games on Steams will run on Linux using their Proton emulator; works seamlessly. I'm currently running Fallout 4 on Mint with absolutely no performance issues. I don't do the dual boot thing; tried that once and lost a whole drive due to MBR corruption. However, I do run a copy of Windows 10 on VMWare which I use for development. Eclipse just can't compete with Visual Studio, and unfortunately, I've not been able to get Visual Studio to run with Wine yet.

[@jermybach]

Ms dos in 2000: I will be back. Ms dos in 2024: I’m back.

[@andreyshevchenko4689]

Is it? I hear about it for the first time right now.

[@Sassi7997]

​@@andreyshevchenko4689 May I ask a question: How old are you?

[@andreyshevchenko4689]

@@Sassi7997 37

[@tholo86]

and UK to EU in 2030; I'm back

[@BillyShears-d5l]

*I had problem comprehending trading in general. I tried watching other KZbin trading channels, but they made the concepts more complicated. I was almost giving up until when i discovered content and explain everything in detail. The videos are easy to follow*

[@triniteetellez-g3c]

I've been making a lot of looses trying to make profit trading. I thought trading on a demo account is just like trading the real market. Can anyone help me out or at least advise me on what to do?

[@badarhoeington]

Trading on a demo account can definitely feel similar to the real market, but there are some differences. It's important to remember that trading involves risks and it's normal to face looses sometimes. One piece of advice is to start small and gradually increase your investments as you gain more experience and confidence. It might also be helpful to seek guidance from experienced traders or do some research on different trading strategies

[@SerenGordon-i9c]

I will advise you should stop trading on your own if you keep losing

[@SerenGordon-i9c]

If you can, then get a professional to trade for you i think that way your assets are more secure

[@SerenGordon-i9c]

I'd recommend Pelagia,George her profit is great even when there's a dip

[@clintfultz411]

Win95 was a watershed event. Prior to it, we were putting more into PCs than we were getting back. Productivity went up dramatically in the years after it was released.

[@nevarmaor]

I found DOS 3 the most productive for me. 2-colour hercules graphics card, black and amber. No needless fiddling with graphic UI to distract me all the time, because default themes always bother my eyes.

[@alexalexov6019]

Да. Все верно!

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

First Windows that worked properly. However history could have been different if Apple licenced Mac OS 6 / 7 to others in early '90s

[@burnttoast111]

@@mladenmatosevic4591 Apple couldn't just license Mac OS, even if they wanted to. They exclusively used Motorola CPUs, which uses not only a completely different instruction set from x86, but is also a RISC CPU - reduced instruction set. It would have been a massive undertaking to port Mac OS to x86, and on top of that, it would have threatened their business of selling computers. Macs primary non-education use is for professional multimedia production. If for the same price, you can get a PC with more powerful hardware, run Mac OS, and use the Mac software you require for your multimedia business, why wouldn't you? No doubt, there would have been specialty machines built for these users. I guess history would have been different in that some people today would be talking about Apple as if it was Edsel. Also, I have to disagree about 95 'just working'. IMHO, for Windows, it was XP Pro, and for Mac, it was OSX. They were both kind of crashing dumpster fires before then, in my experience. I don't know about Mac OS filesystems, but going from FAT32 to NTFS on Windows may be the single greatest improvement in Windows. You know, not having to re-install Windows every 3-6 months or so, because Windows crashed, fell down a flight of stairs, and broke its dick. Something that didn't happen with DOS, btw. NOTE: XP Pro still was a terrible pain in the ass in 1 respect. Network printers. Finally in Vista, that was sorted out. NOTE: I'm specifying XP Pro (and not XP Home), because XP Pro was built off of Win NT, while XP Home was built off of Win 9x, leading to much better reliability with XP Pro. No idea why Microsoft did it that way, although they realized the error of it before Vista. Although, notably, Win 95 did come with TCP/IP drivers, so you could play Quake over the Internet. Instead of just playing Doom over a LAN with DOS.

[@Puschit1]

You mean Windows 3.x, right? Win 95 was just a polished version for the masses but Windows 3.X was the true turning point where you left the command prompt and got an actual GUI. It's just that at that time only geeks cared for that or had PCs to begin with. By the time Win 95 came out it was common for average joes to have computers.

[@DefaultFlame]

An absolutely amazing graphical representation. I really like the music change when XP came on the scene. Edit: I also like how OpenVMS keeps clawing its way back on to the list.

[@Rancid-Jane]

I was delighted that MS-DOS never died. It dipped out of top ten in 2015 but it never did.

[@tomjarky]

It's.incredible how Linux almost never took their percentage down

[@giovannialfano5979]

AmigaOS: 20 years ahead.

[@MultiCappie]

Best thing about AmigaOS: Amiga owners made Mac owners look less arrogant by comparison.

[@GaryCameron]

I was an OS/2 developer and it blew any Windows version away, you could do real time data collection and compression on a 486 while still using it as a desktop PC. After using OS/2 2.0 I could never be happy with a MS desktop until Win2K came out a decade later.

[@giovannialfano5979]

@@GaryCameron I used os2 when I was an ibm employee in the late 90. I fully agree. Also Lotus Notes was brilliant.

[@giovannialfano5979]

@@MultiCappie beauty is for those who have eyes to grasp it

[@BurkenProductions]

crap os :D pc is better! :D (yes this shit is still going strong in 2024!)

[@anthonyradtke4714]

Always rooting for the penguin

[@StuartJ]

The title of this video should be Desktop OS, because Linux would be at the top.

[@shadedisplayed]

@@StuartJit wouldn’t, windows has always dominated but it doesn’t mean it’s better in every way.

[@danielschwarz531]

@@shadedisplayed It definitely would, when considering the total install base. Even when looking at smartphones alone there are more Android devices (1.6 billion) than windows installations (1.4 billion). I wouldn't be surprised that linux would be at least 10x the competition when considering all installations like TVs, general smart devices, Servers, Smartphones, Docker Container, VMs... But on Desktop windows is still on top.

[@theviniso]

​@@danielschwarz531 They're counting ChromeOS separately so I don't think Android should be counted as Linux

[@willgilliam9053]

always root for the penguin! :)

[@Kerrathul]

My favorite OS is probably Gentoo Linux back in the mid 2000’s. Compiling the entire OS myself was amazing.

[@tanawatjukmongkol2178]

ldk, for me compiling was a necessity for me (because HP and their broken laptop 8BB3 motherboard quirks ie. bugs that they wont fix), and I don't really find fun. It is for the first time, but then It gets annoying.

[@pctribe7943]

windows 7 and Windows 10 : The best O.S of all time but unfortunate we are not introduced to the Linux Env which could boost our potential many times.

[@the_mariocrafter]

Glad Linux grows faster than ChomOS.

[@deltalebg]

Linux older Than chromeOS.

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@deltalebg ofc

[@rodrigozimmermann2258]

ChromeOS is Linux-based.

[@deltalebg]

@@rodrigozimmermann2258 nah it Fake u Can use linux on chrome OS but it isnt based on linux

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@rodrigozimmermann2258 I know, but it altogether is a different user experience.

[@storungz]

This was really cool to watch! Thank you!!

[@gustavofernandes7501]

WTF man! What a good video! I loved it! Threw me back to a lot of memories!!! Thank God I had the chance to try a lot of those, starting with MS-DOS 3.20 by the early 90's...

[@Sanid_]

Didn’t see Windows Millenium 😅

[@DaScareCrow]

Windows 2000 is basically the same thing

[@vilislacis3337]

@@DaScareCrowNo, 2000 was upgrade to NT and Me was upgrade to 98.

[@gwgux]

Windows ME was so bad that it never amounted to anything. I would've been surprised if it made it up on the chart.

[@jeffcook3747]

I worked in a computer shop for many years. All our computers that we built came with 98SE. Absolutely the best OS at the time.

[@tommykawaii]

Hahaha I wondered about it as well 🤣. Apparently it was so bad that never became a thing 😅

[@AniMageNeBy]

IT's amazing that MS-DOS still holds out, even with a mere 0,2%, where so many other have come and gone. It's also clear window reins supreme on the PC market, and the only times it looses, is because it cannibalizes itself with a new version. Also to note is, that Linux, even thought tiny, is about the only one that kept growing continuously on this chart, contrary to all other non-windows out there.

[@DMoneySmooth]

For me, it was the AmigaOS. Introduced me to video production with Newtek’s Video Toaster. Some of you might be more knowledgeable than I am, but I think that Amiga/Newtek connection lives on today. Amiga/Newtek did the Video Toaster Card, Newtek then did the Video Toaster System, Newtek then did the TriCaster, now Vizrt has the TriCaster Hardware and Software…. Now everyone has some type of “Creator” software (Procreate, Final Cut Pro, VideoStudio Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc.). Certainly made an industry, too bad Commodore didn’t see the benefits.

[@nicholas_scott]

I loved my Amiga. I would bring my A500 to school and play games during recess that were better then anyone elses. I would show off its multitasking, and ability to run MSDOS and Mac software. After Jack Tramiel left, Tom Rattigan had brilliant ideas, like turning the A1000 into the 2000 and 500. But the shareholders didnt like him, and fired Rattigan, and most of the Amiga staff, thinking they didn't need new tech, and could just ride the modest popularity.

[@meerkat5818]

"too bad Commodore didn’t see the benefits." Kind of sums them up, doesn't it?

[@linxous]

Thanks for the video I've chosen Linux as my go-to OS. Thanks for all that the open source community has to offer! It's great to see individuals and organizations contributing to this movement. Hope to see more corporate companies joining in to create their own open source softwares.

[@dynamagon]

MS-DOS and Windows are fucking titans, holy shit. The speed at which they grew is mind blowing.

[@jimmybellmon1268]

Because they were more designed for home users than the others.

[@RLstavista]

But they suck dead dog nuts

[@Dd909mm]

I still remember the days of Windows XP, and how it was in every home and on every computer. It was the pinnacle of technology at that time!! .💥

[@michaelterry1000]

I have been a Linux user for about the last 15 years. I was a bit surprised to see that it is currently 3.9% I was used to it being between 1 and 2 %.

[@katherinekeller4149]

Because they've finally started making GOOD desktop distros, like good enough for my luddite friend to run.

[@fiyazv4856]

It was the Win XP and 7 my favorite OS. It was stable too.

[@RobC1999]

So much for Windows 10 being the last Microsoft Windows we’ll ever need.

[@JoseInATux]

We don't talk about windows 11

[@r.a.6459]

The claim is correct. Windows 10 will be the last Windows _people_ will ever use, because they'll be migrating to Linux before 2025-10-14 (2032-12-31 if LTSC).

[@tommykawaii]

@@r.a.6459 I don’t plan to ever use Linux, so I think the claim isn’t really valid. Same for most of the world. Maybe not China if they decide to dump Microsoft for control and censorship reasons

[@PKM1010]

@@r.a.6459 As a Linux guy, I think you're being a little optimistic to put it lightly, but I'm hapy for the market gain. Still, it is kinda lead by the Steam Deck and Chrome OS that help to change the perspective of Linux being difficult.

[@matthewbarabas3052]

@@JoseInATux i use windows 11. with the proper third party fixes(mostly just the start menu), its inarguably better than 10.

[@The0Stroy]

Everyone say MS-DOS. More interesting is that UNIX stayed. I guess it is because as graphics-less system it's ideal to run huge servers.

[@stephanierando3477]

A lot of infrastructure still use UNIX because of its ability to run pure data storage without the need for GUI.

[@qbasicmichael]

I think bsd would count as unix-lile, and there are bsd desktops.

[@jaythejay10]

Mac OS X (now macOS) is based on BSD, a UNIX system, and Apple even got certification with the Open Group to say that macOS is officially a UNIX operating system. Linux is the main successor to UNIX for servers and despite being a fresh rewritten OS is conceptually similar and it is easy to port software from UNIX to Linux. Now Linux is the most used OS for servers and smartphones, but it is not as common on the desktop.

[@marcelomapurunga6936]

​@@jaythejay10Meu sistema principal é o BigLinux sistema operacional incrível, seguro e lindo.

[@HelicopterDown]

I found it fascinating that the oven at the Olive Garden I worked at ran on UNIX. so many appliances still use it.

[@Merecir]

The MS-DOS commands are still fresh in my mind whenever I have to open up windows command prompt. dir

[@vivekcom5388]

Copy con Name Dir Type file name MD Name CD dir Name what a days of childhood. Still in my mind

[@deepanshu00730]

@@vivekcom5388 mkdir rmdir exit

[@FHollis-gw4cc]

@@vivekcom5388 Copy con Name = cat - > Name Dir = ls Type file name = cat Name MD Name = mkdir Name CD dir = cd dir Name what a days of childhood. Still in my mind And, I can press the tab key to complete the file or directory name! And I can name three different files in the same directory Name, name and NAME

[@blockybfdi8876]

C:\> MD folder C:\> CD folder C:\folder>EDIT program.bat

[@SaaS_Components]

Very good! Thank you.

[@richardlincoln886]

Amiga O/S was up there - programming for it, you started at address $4 - the only guaranteed address, then used that to ask the O/S for more functionality which was loaded dynamically. It seemed like magic in the late 80s, coming from the C64 which was basically a list of routines at fixed memory addresses.

[@user-3bs8jd83js]

Note- this is desktop market share timeline only

[@MattSmith0]

Otherwise it would just be a big bar of Linux with nothing else breaching 1%

[@Elthenar]

Desktop and laptop. I am fair certain most of those MacOS numbers are from MacBooks

[@enter-consult]

​@@MattSmith0 maybe only on servers (about 55% on azure vms are linux). But on desktop/notebook not a chance.

[@MattSmith0]

@@enter-consult my point was that desktops and laptops are a TINY fraction of all computers. Azure is obviously not representative as it's Microsoft's cloud platform (and even there non-linix systems are a monitor); the overwhelming majority of the AWS and GCP infrastructure runs on Linux as do overwhelming majority of private clouds, baremetal deployments, and embedded systems.

[@joojoojeejee6058]

Win 3.x and DOS were not mutually exclusive. Win 3.x required DOS and was just a graphical user interface.

[@Frahamen]

So does win 95 and 98

[@okaro6595]

No, Widows only used DOS for file system. It had its own API, process control, memory mangment etc.

[@okaro6595]

​@@Frahamenno, they were complete operating systems that did not rely on the user having a DOS.

[@joojoojeejee6058]

@@okaro6595 Well technically that's the definition of DOS, it is used to manipulate files on the disk, and it doesn't do much fancier things than that. :) So obviously Windows would not rely on DOS regarding those fancy things.

[@karlgw]

I started my career (not in IT) using MS-DOS and a colleague demonstrated Windows 2 to me. He opened a DOS terminal, typed WIN and hit return, and the screen did a little fancy (for the time) graphics, then I could point to an icon to start Word rather than typing 'Word' (or was it 'winword'? I can't remember). Left me feeling entierely underwhelmed :D

[@ciffluk]

thx for the video, when I started using Mac since 2003, it was only around 5%, glad to see now up to 14.6%

[@ClassyBaxy]

unix the goat never leaving the leaderboard and still here to this day

[@scvcebc]

Industrial computers that still work but all the original programmers retired and the source code is lost, so everyone is afraid to upgrade.

[@majus1334]

@@scvcebc illumos is UNIX operating system, last updated on Nov 18, 2024 - 8 hours ago from writing of this comment. Is Oracle Solaris a joke to you? What about IBM AIX? Unix is alive and still developed.

[@SGS233]

It is amazing how C=64 kernel lapped the AmigaDOS. The latter came and went. Also interesting is that AtariDOS was featured but TRS/DOS was nowhere to be found on the top ten list. Finally, what a surprise to see OS/2 and OSX hold out as long as they did!

[@BenScott]

That's market share only - there was a dramatic growth in overall numbers of computer owners during that time, of course. And I think Commodore sold about twice as many C64s, globally, as Amigas, though each at a far lower price point. But yes, pretty remarkable!

[@vencik_krpo]

This is the realm of PC (broadly speaking). If you looked at the numbers in the cases of all installations (including handhelds, wearables, servers, VMs, Docker images and especially cloud-based runtime envs), you’d see a very different picture.

[@MyUsername09AZ]

True, Linux would beat all of the rest by significant margin. World of today runs on Linux.

[@morgfarm1]

Very true. Though I would say this chart represents desktop computers at the consumer level, mainly. Most of us in the game know Linux and unix-like systems are the absolute majority of everything running. I do wish we had solid numbers, though. Like. If 8.5m is not even 1% of Windows PCs, then I want to know the actual raw numbers of all computers running Windows, including servers of all NT kernel based Microsoft systems, from NT thru to the server families. And then all the instances of Linux servers out there, of all breeds. I bet you that number dips deeeeeep into the Trillion range.

[@vencik_krpo]

@@morgfarm1 Indeed; especially if you’d consider not only e.g. Docker images but instead all _individual_ operational containers, and similarly, not just the definition of, let’s say, an AWS Lambda, but each running instance… Trillions, easily.

[@kocimaniak]

Servers are PCs. 'Desktop' is the right word.

[@vencik_krpo]

@@kocimaniak Not really. PC stands for “personal computer”-i.e. a computer for personal use by a particular user (or a few, but one at a time). “Desktop” is a term used for a stationary PC (bound to a desk). Laptop suggests portability (and is a PC)… A server isn’t a PC as it’s purpose is to serve many users at once.

[@lovepreetrupal]

Xp service pack 3 was my all time favourite. Used it for more than 10byears. Sometime I also use it today in virtual machine for some applications. Specially for old games like vice City and super smash.

[@Alabaster335]

I like how nothing beat XP at nearly 82%

[@rdrhouse]

nothing will ever beat xp

[@stephan5353]

At the time, Microsoft was high on antitrust and forced OEMs to always preinstall Windows, no matter what customers wanted (otherwise they didn't get *any* licenses). And MS counted sales, not installations or usages. This is how they achieved "82%".

[@Eysenbeiss]

@@stephan5353 Same with iCrap, before they switched to the Intel CPUs ...

[@AEGISAOE]

@@stephan5353 dont forget win xp was always free to download if u know what i mean

[@ajaykumarsingh702]

XP was a evolution in the computer OS world. People get to know more about PCs and internet only because of XP. XP was also highly customizable in comparison to any other OS released even today.

[@gianlpl]

0,2% of MS DOS in 2024 seems unbelievable

[@TheRezro]

Mostly old hardware as it was omnipresent. I skip that Win 95/98/Mi were based on DOS and all new NT Windows still have DOS emulators.

[@HomerSimpson-d5j]

Every os less pc comes with an free dos & alot of machines are working with a realtime os and a based ms dos such machines have a life time of 25 or more years because with modern os you dont get through the driver layer or you need to pay license fee for every single os.

[@lexlayabout5757]

Unbelievably high or unbelievably low?

[@xitheris1758]

Infrastructure systems still run MS-DOS, for a variety of reasons. It's... complicated.

[@TheRezro]

@@xitheris1758 The reason is simple. It work and is cheap. A centrifuge do not really need Win 5000 with orbital laser.

[@panch0shins]

Great video. Thanks for posting it.

[@OliverCGoetz]

I'm gonna assume this is for desktop OS installations only. If you'd factor in server OS installations I'm sure this would look very different and we'd see a much higher Linux usage.

[@DaveYeagly]

Sad to see that BeOS didn't even make the cut. It was a great OS that was ahead of its time.

[@CallousCoder]

Was it? NextOS had all the same features and was multi user a d is still around today as OSX.

[@majus1334]

Haiku (OpenBeOS) is still developed today.

[@Stephen.Bingham]

Raises the thorny question of what is a separate OS rather than a new version or marketing re-brand. From a technical perspective Microsoft really only released two separate OSs - MS-DOS and NT - for example. But I admit that wouldn’t generate a very interesting video!

[@scotthaskin1432]

And if one looks at the architecture and history of both MS-DOS and NT an argument can be made that they are both Very proprietary versions of Unix.

[@ziomekzmiasta9292]

Is Windows 11 a very big update od Windows NT 3.51?

[@milasudril]

@@scotthaskin1432 As opposed to a more mainframe-like architecture, where files are record-based, rather than byte-based. The mainframe variant would have been useless on the desktop.

[@carstenhardt1589]

@@scotthaskin1432 Yeah sure - in the same way that Coca-Cola is "a very proprietary version" of Bud light ;) Actually, DOS was designed to be as compatible as possible with CP/M, and NT has quite some VMS ideas in the kernel - Dave Cutler had designed VMS, wanted to do an improved version but DEC stopped him, and then he got a call from Microsoft ... BTW, MS did a Unix-like OS that could run on an 8086 CPU, it was called XENIX and was later merged into SCO Unix. (SCO used to be the good guys.)

[@_kitaes_]

don't forget dos based windows

[@james4flix925]

Love these infographic videos you do, may I suggest you do one to compare internet access for example:- desktop Vs smartphone

[@CaptainGizmo]

Thank you very much @james4flix925! Do you mean number of internet connections or internet usage based on devices such as computers, smartphones, smart appliances, servers?

[@james4flix925]

@@CaptainGizmo internet usage PC Vs smartphones

[@SirStumblesALot]

In 1993 I was one of those 0.2%, and I've been with my choice of OS since, it's going strong and constantly gettting better, already passed 4% marketshare on the desktop. One of the best choices I've ever made.

[@Mesopotamia1234]

Of course Windows XP was the best one at that time

[@kevinyoliveira68]

Still best Windows ever

[@9249-x8d]

No, 2000 was better.

[@kevinyoliveira68]

@@9249-x8d 2000 was a server system

[@TheFosterJourney]

XP stood for a decade!

[@miks564]

You mean the most popular

[@piotrscibor1257]

I'm using Linux since 1997. Before DOS, Win95 and Unix. Win95 was unstable, DOS no parallel processing (except for TSR), Unix too expensive. I used to have a Windows machine to play some demanding Windows only games like Farcry or Cyberpunk but now thanks to SteamOS and Proton compatibility there is no use for Windows anymore. I mean I can play all the titles on Linux :)

[@ranchocommodorereef]

What Linux distro was around in 1997 and which one did you use?

[@lacekratochvil]

@@ranchocommodorereef First I had something around 1994 from many floppy disks, maybe it was Debian? It was 386, 4MB RAM, it was swapping a lot. Then I soon switched to Red Hat Linux 4.x. Currently on Fedora + CentOS-7 and considering what next after CentOS-7, probably CentOS Stream.

[@wombatdk]

​@@ranchocommodorereef Slackware and SuSE, though not entirely sure about SuSE.

[@gfhdlsk]

FYI You can't play all games

[@GoonyMclinux]

​@@gfhdlskcan't play them all on windows either.

[@davidgrisez]

Since I am an older person there are a number of computer operating systems I have used over the years. The first computer I had was a Heathkit H89 computer that could run either Heath Disk Operating System or CP/M. The next two computers I had ran MS-DOS. Eventually I had a Dell Computer that could run Windows 98 and Windows XP. Eventually I switched Apple Computers that ran MacOS 10. Now my latest Apple Computer is running MacOS Sonoma 14.4. Also for a period of time I was using a low cost Raspberry Pi 400 computer which ran the Raspberry Pi OS which was a distribution of Debian Linux. So I have been exposed to many of the computer operating systems over the years. The one trend that I have noticed is that as computers become more powerful the operating systems become larger and take up more memory to run on the computer. As an example CP/M was small at about 8K, the Mac OS I am now using has 1.65GB of wired memory.

[@roof35]

"there are a number of computer operating systems I have used over the years" Same for me: VMS, CP/M, DOS, MS-DOS, Macintosh (early MacOS), UNIX, OS X, Linux, NeXt, the whole MS range till now Windows 11. I liked UNIX the most and miss it still today. Also early MacOS versions (the first "windows") were revealing.

[@lambda653]

Which one was your favorite?

[@CallousCoder]

MUMPS, CP/M, RSX-11 and OS/400 were some OSes I still used as a merely 51 year old.

[@Darkmass28]

Respect to the people who are still using MS DOS in 2024

[@Suralin0]

I'm currently using Win10. Used Win7 for a decade prior, held onto XP for about that long before that, had a few years each of Win98 and 95, and have many fond memories of Mac OS7.5 and Amiga Workbench before that.

[@alanmountain5804]

That's my experience too

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

I find it extremely hard to believe that Mac OS X didn’t beat out Mac OS 9 until 2009. That’s a full six years after the last Mac OS 9-bootable machine shipped, and 3 years after the last machine capable of running Mac OS 9 apps at all shipped.

[@grauwolf1604]

Who cares about Mac?!

[@CRothgeb]

I wonder if there were just a ton of older Macs being strung along in the education space. I bet there were lots of machines that either couldn’t run Mac OS X or else ran it very poorly and school IT departments just kept them running on OS 9. That’s the only explanation I can think of.

[@tapah_5]

​@@grauwolf1604According to statistics, at least 14% at the moment

[@scallen3841]

​@@tapah_5very expensive laptops new , still expensive used

[@willbarnz6960]

The sad thing was Mac OS9 wasn't the first OS with that name. Microwave OS-9 existed years before for the Motorola 6809 MPU.

[@cynewulf1]

I would suggest ZX Spectrum BASIC is missing from this list in 1985. At that point they had around 40% UK market share in home computing. They'd sold 5 million units of Spectrums by around that time, compared to the C64's 3.5 million.

[@pistolp8037]

The funny part, CrApple was stuck at 2-5% market share for almost 2 decades, until they switched to a Unix like OS, dumbed everything down, and started pandering to iSheeple who really don't know how computers really work. Now CrApple has around 15-20% market share, Windows is slowly killing itself with power-users and PC enthusiasts all moving to Linux for better performance, gaming, and privacy. And for all you naysayers about Linux. Ever since Valve took Linux as its main OS, Linux has been enjoying a yearly average adoption rate of 37%. Which, roughly equates to just under 1% market share gain per year. That doesn't seem like much, but in less than a decade it might be Linux and CrApple leading the pack. Linux FTW!

[@ccudmore]

Awesome video. I’ve developed software for every listed OS over the years. Some great memories. I’m curious what criteria was used for OS selection. 360 was a server only OS (unless you had some special hardware cards to insert in your PC) so if you’re including server OSs all along, I would have expected higher numbers for Linux. But then Android and iOS never show up.

[@johanv3589]

The numbers are fabricated nonsense, that's the reason. Created by someone who is not old enough to have lived through those early days so they didn't realize. Some OS's were a lot bigger in popularity, some are missing.

[@majus1334]

Android and iOS are mobile operating systems, not general "computer" operating systems, hence they are not included in the video.

[@majus1334]

@@johanv3589 Video description.

[@geuros]

My life became so much easier after I switched to Linux. But I guess everyone in this comment section will know why haha

[@dylanduncan1288]

I actually have no idea lol I've tried properly about 15 different Linux based os and had countless problems it's performance is less with almost ever everyday applications web surfing is slow playing video games is often non existent installing apps and navigating the os is considerably harder than Windows Windows does what i ask 80% of the time without arguing linux takes hours of youtube tutorials to get to do basic things the only advantage I've found using Linux is that it's a lighter os than Windows

[@majus1334]

@@dylanduncan1288 Must be skill issue... Linux is usually faster for daily tasks than Windows is. And yeah gaming has problems, sometimes games run better on Linux, but usually not. Which distributions you ran the most?

[@shiro3146]

80% linux problem attributed to Drivers 10% is Software compatibility(mostly usee fault, but i also cant blame user as they too dont expect they need to switch mamy years ago) and lastly 10% is usually because how Open Linux distros usually are, some of the critical files usually messed up somehow both by aoftware we install(had this one on me unfortunately) or user itself accidentally broke those files because of some outdated tutorials(hapened to me back then with Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04) and yes games is whole another discussion, personally if it wasn't chinese gacha games or very competitive game, you're usually fine but had to dualboot with windows because i am yet to daily drive linux(between OpenSUSE,Fedora ams Arch), but having fun with it and might jump ship once i feel ready.

[@dylanduncan1288]

@@majus1334 ubuntu mint pop os xubuntu ubuntu studio linux lite zorin os and a few others i cant remember trying

[@tomaselke3670]

Maybe a bit of nitpicking, but Windows 3.x wasn't an operating system. It was a UI that Ran on top of MSDOS.

[@CallousCoder]

I always called it a glorified menu system. But it did boot its own kernel it just used DOS to bootstrap it. So it was its own OS.

[@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547]

So was Win95 and Win98.

[@blockybfdi8876]

So was 1.x, 2.x, 95, 98, Windows NT 3.x, Windows NT 4.0, all the way up to XP were all on top of MS-DOS.

[@CallousCoder]

@@blockybfdi8876 NT was NOT on top of DOS! It was a whole new kernel 32bit from the ground up. It was coordinated by Dave Cutler former DIGITAL employee that did RSX-11 and VMS there.

[@christopherarinzenwadigwe7533]

Incredible. Really nice work. If you don't mind me asking, pls hope do you create this visualisation. I really like it

[@beyondaeon]

The irony that I watched this on a Linux device, my android phone, leaves the thinking that this video is under-representing linux... As all stats do.

[@heitor5998]

54% of the world's devices runs on Linux thanks to google's android. this video seems a bit misleading to me.

[@ARBUZIK.dudkin]

@@heitor5998this is computer operating system not operating system in general.

[@crossover5606]

Because Google does its best to distance Android from being labeled as "linux distro" they want it to standalone as its own thing, and I don't blame them.

[@beyondaeon]

@@ARBUZIK.dudkin I watch most of my KZbin on a Linux PC actually

[@heitor5998]

@@ARBUZIK.dudkin Aren't all devices nowadays computers?

[@leonard1889]

Linux is the future. For privacy, for security, for freedom.

[@anthonyp9591]

i've been hearing this since the 90s...how long does it take to usher in the future, it's already been over 30 years

[@InfiniteDrakonian]

​@@anthonyp9591future is future, be patient

[@leonard1889]

@@anthonyp9591 I switched to Linux some months ago and rarely am using windows anymore. Just don't need it.

[@universegmc980]

​@anthonyp9591 1000 лет

[@anthonyp9591]

@@universegmc980 я знаю

[@Diversaĵo]

My favorite RISC OS and Linux

[@CallousCoder]

RiscOS was cool! My colleague had an Acorn running it, starting it up was near instant because like Atari TOS it started from ROM. But it had a very mature GUI.

[@PeBoVision]

Linux (currently ZorinOS 17) remains my OS of choice, and it doesn't seem to care how old the system is. Works as well on 30 year old Core2Duos as it does on modern Intel/AMD processors. That is probably why, once it appeared, it never left the list. I firmly believe that Microsoft's planned obsolescence revenue model, and Linux's variety of build options, will see it gain unprecedented market share in January 2025, when Microsoft requires that a whole lot of people throw out perfectly good hardware, that will continue to work fine under Linux.

[@1videoshow]

If you need/like macOS feeling with Linux Power this is the way to go: Zorin OS.

[@PeBoVision]

@@1videoshow Heck, if you need/like a fully customizable OS, then Gnome desktop and extensions (and Terminal) as implemented by the Zorin distro, provide options that windows users can only dream of (although I think Windows users stopped dreaming a long time ago) Zorin 17.2 uses the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS kernels as well, so thats another 'selling' point. (While LibreOffice 24,8 provides even greater MS Office compatibility (which was already might fine) I truly love ZorinOS (their boot management still needs work on older HP and Acer laptops though. It works, but requires a bit more UEFI/Bios fiddling than Windows.)

[@cyberkiller83]

Windows 2000 was my most beloved operating system.

[@samlebon9884]

True l. Win 2000 was revolutionary. It was the gun that killed Novell.

[@ademmeral]

I agree. Windows 95 was near perfect after the horrors of WfW but only after Windows NT I felt really confortable and reliable. With Windows 2000 everything was settled and I quit DOS kernel and netware after.

[@WeeGraeme68]

I'm currently on Windows 10. None of my hardware meets the criteria for Windows 11. I won't be upgrading hardware just to run Windows 11. Unless I need to upgrade hardware, I suspect my next OS will be Linux. Historically, I used to use MS-DOS, starting with 3.2. Then I added DESQview. From there I went to OS/2 version 2.0. The hinted at (not sure if it was ever "promised") support for Win 95 never eventuated, and over time, fewer programs would run in Win 3.1 mode in OS/2, and not many programs were natively written for, or ported to OS/2, so it was no longer functional for me. But I have to say that up until that point, OS/2 was the most stable operating system I ever used. Even if a task froze up completely, you could generally save and exit normally from every other task you might have been running.

[@BioTheHuman]

Come to Linux. As you can see in the last years is growing and a lot of distro are quite stable and you can do a lot of things. Unless you're some specific user that needs specific Windows programs, you'll be totally fin with Linux

[@adastr4230]

Same here but...I put the Windows 11 kit in the Windows 10 iso and bypass the Windows 11 requirements so now I'm using the updated Windows 11.

[@Bourinos02]

I'm also running windows 10, I meed the criteria for Windows 11 but I don't want even more spyware so I'll probably use some Linux with Proton as I only play video games on windows anyway...

[@FHollis-gw4cc]

I had basically the same experience as you. I started with PC DOS 2.0. Kept it up to date until MS DOS 6.22. Took a look at Windows 3.1. Just could not stand that interface! Installed OS/2 and absolutely loved it! Invested a LOT of time into supporting it, them IBM informed me they were closing down their support. So, I cleaned off my desktop computers and the server and migrated to Windows NT 4.0. It worked, but was crude compared to OS/2. I tried Linux, but at the time there wasn't software available to do all I needed. As time went by, the software did become available and I soon needed Windows less and less. So, I switched completely to Linux and have not looked back. The last version of Windows I ran was XP. I truly do not miss seeing the Blue Screen!

[@majus1334]

I suggest dual-booting Linux for now, so you have time to comfortably learn it over time.

[@davidsalzgeber4792]

i use arch btw

[@gitawajinsei]

by the way, I'm good By the way, I also use arch

[@sharpnerw1093]

By the way. Me too

[@iaaf919]

Me 2 btw 😂

[@Masonicon]

I use Arch linux for being used in my Steam Deck

[@Felix-on9dr]

Me 3 btw

[@simimik.]

WHY LINUX WILL GROW (LEAPS AND BOUND) WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS 1) The adaption of ARM for Linux (faster but energy efficient computers) - ARM computers will enable Video Editors like me to switch to Linux 2) The improvement of DaVinci Resolve for Linux (Video editors are the people that will popularized Linux and will be followed by Gamers) 3) The shift from Windows to Linux of China

[@theclearsounds3911]

4) Each newer version of Windows becomes less and less usable, while each version of Linux becomes ever so slightly more usable.

[@philrader2016]

I loved the simplicity and stability of Windows NT.

[@_2013-2022]

Technologies moved forward, and TCP/IP won MS NetBEUI, due to its scalability and routing DNS won WINS.... I used NetBEUI to TCP/IP on a router...but it was 100 years ago. Yes, NT was good. By the way, NT stands for New Technology in MS perception. IPX SPX was basic for NetWare...

[@jeromeprin5668]

Stability?? I was an IT guy back then and there was plenty of pc to redo....Well it was more stable than 95 but not 98!!

[@WorldlyBudget]

This is what a monopoly looks like

[@anti-sheep-machina6548]

MacOS since 2008. My best experience I had was AmigaOS. I never had more fun with a Computersystem.

[@uribak9144]

At least the Amiga had games. What's fun about a Mac? Closed system with almost no games.

[@skryvvara]

@@uribak9144 It's not that closed (anymore), sure still more closed than Linux for example but mostly open enough. And yeah, gaming isn't that big on MacOS, but that's not what most people use it for. MacOS is a work system for me and if it wouldn't exist I would probably use freeBSD

[@TeaMal_FX]

windows 7 is the first os i interacted with, and strangely enough, i managed to interact versions like windows 98 and windows xp when i was young as my grandpa used to have an xp computer and i had interacted with windows 98 computers at school once. chrome os was the first OS i interacted other than windows, and im glad im no longer on a chromebook

[@Lithium59]

In about 1997 was when the “monopoly problem” began to show

[@redcrafterlppa303]

It will be interesting how things develop over the next 10 years. Windows 11 is a joke and many people stay on windows 10 not being able to or not wanting to switch. Also many people realized that Linux distributions like mint or pop os are viable or even better alternatives to windows due to the windows 11 dilemma. I hope this is enough for Linux to really blow up and take the crown from Microsoft.

[@karal_the_crazy]

@@redcrafterlppa303idk I find windows 11 performs better on my laptop than windows 10 did

[@Drakey_Fenix]

The only reason for this is because Mint and PopOS are relatively new still. There wasn't anything like Windows just a couple of years ago in the Linux ecosystem. So people didn't want to switch because it was too complicated. And even if you decide to use Mint, PopOs or Manjaro, there are other issues at play. The biggest two are driver incompatibility and software not working without emulation. As someone who plays lots of games, I have tried multiple distros, and I've always had issues because I use an Nvidia GPU. The drivers that are provided are half a year out of date, so if you try and play any new games that just came out, you'll be likely to have issues or terrible in-game performance.

[@redcrafterlppa303]

@@Drakey_Fenix I'm not into gaming but isn't the support much better with proton and steam pushing support for Linux. I guess it's not quite there yet.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

@@redcrafterlppa303Proton is doing wonders! But NVIDIA is holding it all back for gaming on Linux. Unless you have AMD, then you're fine.

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

Windows 11's adoption was always gonna be slow due to half of pc owners being below minimum requirements at launch. I'm still running a 6th generation intel core, and my husband is running 9th. They're slated for upgrades this and next year, but still...

[@VORASTRA]

and by the face people are still alienated by increasing scale of telemetry

[@pedrofelipe9885]

My on-screen OS tier list: - S Tier - Windows 11 - Windows 8/8.1 - Windows 10 - MacOS 10.7+ - A Tier - Chrome OS - Windows Vista/7 - Windows XP - B Tier - UNIX - Windows XP - C Tier - Linux - D Tier - MS-DOS

[@victusraiton]

Never rate again

[@majus1334]

I know it's _your_ list, but C tier is insane to me Also, BSD is still kind of relevant to mention.

[@MachinimaGothic]

Quite interesting to see that Linux is slowly receiving bigger part of the cake. Go go Linux!

[@markae0]

Only 100 kinds to choose from.

[@Gramini]

@@markae0 Realistically it's closer to something like 5. Vast majority of Linux distros are super niche/specialized, no longer maintained or not suited for desktop PC.

[@stephan5353]

@@markae0 This is a red herring. There are just as many Windows versions if you count *all* of them, but only very few are relevant to the end user. Same with Linux.

[@stephan5353]

Linux has already won, but nobody noticed. I am betting you have more Linux machines at home than anything else: your router, your firewall, your NAS, your TV, your set-top box, all your Android phones and tablets, and probably your car infotainment system: chances are everything runs some flavor of Linux.

[@inoppi]

the video is about single user personal computers, and Linux literally won all the other markets

[@RetroJack]

Captain Gizmo: Does an OS video OS nerds: "Well ackshewalay, early versions of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS. "🤓