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- Author: pikuma.com (@pikuma)
- Posted: 2023-11-16 17:26:02
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Unpopular opinion,
In the 90s we had lots of different and quirky operating systems; not simply different GUIs but different philosophies on how to operate.
Inferno, Plan9, QNX, BeOS, Menuet, AmigaOS, SunOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, RISC OS, etc.
…now everything is just Linux. 🙄
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