For people wanting to try out something completely different, ArcaOS OS/2.
Let Arca Noae show you what OS/2 looks like in the 21st Century. Stable. Secure. Lean. Hardware-Compatible.
No experience myself, but i have worked with OS/2 in the past. Liked it.
Me too…but that was 30 years ago…
Yup, sounds about right 
In the company where I worked then, there was one machine running Os/2 with software that was rather crucial - and hardly anyone knew anything about OS/2. It was a disaster waiting to happen. So I ported the software to a Windows PC (which would have been either 3.11 or 95 I think; not sure anymore.)
Time runs fast these days. 
Myself i can’t believe it’s only been 30 years 
It’d be interesting to look at, but I doubt most software I would be interested would run on it.
Are there even 3rd party browsers for OS/2?
It’s proprietary. And won’t support 64bit, its a 32bit kernel completely. A personal license would be $139.00, I guess most user nowadays won’t even consider to use it on their 64bit architectures.
I’m pretty certain that their nice is legacy hardware / software that has been developed in the past for OS/2 and some enthusiasts.
OS/2 what is that? First time I am hearing of it.
Is it good? Is it a derivative of BSD or SysV? Or is it Linux only?
It’s a proprietary dinosaur from thirty years back, which was supposed to become a DOS alternative, but due to different opinions of IBM and Microsoft about the right course, never really took off.
Being a dinosaur myself I have worked with it, and I was happy to have an alternative to windows.
Way back then, it was better than Windows, but it never really took off (here in the States at least) and remained a very small niche.
Course being better than early Windows, wasn’t a very high bar….
It was little more compilcated. OS/2 was develop with IBM and Microsoft. But they have litle diferent ideas. After sucess of first version of windows .Microsoft “steal” = “take of with his writen part + some extrass 
“ from base of OS/2 and remade it and release Windows NT. So OS/2 on moder PC lives even in modern windows → if they already dit not replace this part with steal from linux
Not sure what CDE stands for in this case?
I know it as the abbreviation for Common data environment
No, no you are mistaken, 1994 was just 10 minutes ago
No, I missed that
I’ll look into that piece of history.
Thanks!
Read “Hard Drive”, authored by Ed Wallace.
It’s a non-bias perspective, on Bill Gates’ time at Microsoft.
A decent read, if you fancy computer-nerd history 
Indeed, G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S
Hi, @xiaohongshu welcome 
. I’ll have to look into “Hard Drive”- it’s on my TBR list.
Thanks.
Thanks for replying.
I like all-things Linux, btw
You wont be disappointed. It’s an objective analysis on Gates MS timeliness, without overtly criticizing Gates. We all know how & why Gates advanced cheating, monopoly practices (nevermind inferior software quality), but ***how*** he tried to stamp out competition is a completely different perspective.