There a only a handful of viable operating systems out there (Linux, Windows, and (?). What makes it so difficult to make a fresh operating system?
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There are actually other OS’s that have come and gone and there is usually one big reason. No application adoption.
OS/2 was a great OS, had a lot of great features, but Windows OS won because no enough application support for OS/2. Users want to use applications. If you can’t get the applications you want for your computer, you get a different OS.
There have been others also, like BEOS and such. All suffered the same problem, no application support.
In the mobile market we have the same problem. Apple and Google have the apps. Microsoft tried to make a new mobile OS and couldn’t get application developers to develop apps for it. SO it died.
It’s all about the applications.
Windows is the most popular desktop OS partly because of the huge amount of applications for it. Linux is not popular as a desktop app because there are not a lot of apps for it.
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