Alternative Operating Systems

[Lewis]

10 Alternative PC Operating Systems You Can Install
http://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating-systems-you-can-install/

Linux isn’t the only alternative PC operating system out there. Some alternative operating systems are developed by large corporations, while others are small projects worked on by hobbyists.

We don’t recommend you install most of these on your actual PC. If you want to play with them, you may want to install a virtual machine program like VirtualBox or VMware Player and give them a whirl.

 

[TOG]

Interesting that, out of 10 alternative operating systems, the first 4 are Linux.

The TOG​

 

[tim-from-pa]

I may be a little simplistic, and no OS expert, but other than Microsoft, I see the other operating systems very similar. Mac's OS X series seems to be built on Unix. Linux likewise. So those two OS's are cousins of sorts. Android is based off of Linux, but a little more distant. All Google OS's have a Linux kernal, so all the common OS's out there that I know of are basically the same.

To cite what I have: this laptop and my clunky tower computer runs on Linux. My wife has all Mac's (an old laptop still working well for it's age), an ipad mini, and of course both of us have iphones. In addition, I have the older (4 years old ) "Nook" reader which runs off of Android, and the newer Nexus pad which is google chrome. I feel I have a fairly good distribution as to what's commonly out there except Microsoft. None of these computers/devices ever had a virus, they never crashed, never had "compatibility issues" nor did any of them slow up over time.

I keep telling people over and over just get anything other than Microsoft and they'll wonder why they kept abusing themselves over the years putting up with that jack-shoot idiocy they call an operating system.

For example, my Nexus pad was only $100+ and for what I use it for, it's a fully operational computer. I typed from it in the Sukkot booth during tabernacles because I did not want to take this laptop out and risk having the branches of the thing fall on it. This pad can do documents, spreadsheets, presentations, has various apps/social media on it, can fully get the Internet and youtube, etc etc. When this laptop gets older and conks out , I may consider another with Linux, but for the tower computer, right now I'm looking at either a mini-tower that can run Linux or Android (this works like a local computer with local storage) or docking my Nexus or similar to a monitor and bluetooth keyboard/mouse. The downside of docking with google is that while it's a great OS, most stuff is stored online so you have to work around that to get local storage. I think it can be done but I haven't experimented enough yet.

 

[Lewis]

As soon as I get good with this Virtual Machine Workstation 10.0.4 Build , I might install Mac's OS X on it.