Most Popular Computer Operating Systems 1985 - 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2024
- These are the most popular computer operating systems from 1985 to 2024, based on market share. The latest numbers from 2003 on are readily available from Wikipedia and Statcounter. The first half of the video required a bit more research, which entailed finding and converting sales figures into market share. These numbers may be different based on what OSes are included in the stats, this is why different videos have slightly different numbers.
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that 0.2% of MS-DOS people:
"I ALWAYS COMEBACK"
MS-DOS is immortal
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.
you mean "i always come back", learn first grade english please
Why? @@StrsAmbrg
k@@valentinhalau3396
The MS-DOS comeback at the end was pretty unexpected
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)
Not really, Alot of old machines still run dos, last week I had to fix an old cnc that was running msdos and pascal
4:15 windows '95 in the late 2000's as well lol some like old software
@@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.
@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.
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.
Nice!
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.
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.
6:26 Vista gets beaten by MS-DOS. Most satisfying 😂
vista was shite, XP forever.
@@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.
@@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.
Video was probably made by an indian that's why.
@@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.
AmigaOS: 20 years ahead.
Best thing about AmigaOS: Amiga owners made Mac owners look less arrogant by comparison.
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.
@@GaryCameron I used os2 when I was an ibm employee in the late 90. I fully agree. Also Lotus Notes was brilliant.
@@MultiCappie beauty is for those who have eyes to grasp it
crap os :D pc is better! :D (yes this shit is still going strong in 2024!)
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.
It’s OS/2 for me😢
Thank you sir for a great video! As a computer geek this brings back a lot of nostalgic memories and is wild to see all the OSes and their placement over the years. Kudos!
Currently using 7
XP filled my teenage years
98 made my childhood
And was old enough to see 3.11
98 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 + Linux -> 10 + Linux. Still have 10 installed but don't use it.
MS-DOS > Millenium > XP > 7 > 10 > MacOS Catalina > 10 again > Linux
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)
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.
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.
> 3.9% market share
The year of the Linux desktop is coming, my friends
Already switched a decade ago. Windows is now pretty much just my 'Xbox" partition.
They need to sort out the basic stuff like Scanner and external drive access. and a hot drive swap fault
At home: Linux only!
I use Arch btw
which year is that going to be
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.
It's shocking to see how fast people adopt "Windows 'all your private data are belong to us' 11".
It's because basically every prebuilt PC comes with it preinstalled.
Atari TOS gave birth to many todays top notch applications!
Like 3D Studio Max, Cubase, Logic…
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
Badest Win10 best Win XP
@@jurgenbachmann5920 You never used windows 1. Total crap.
However, the Amiga taught everyone, for Desktop native and multitask, 3D Lightwave , Gui, plugin, graphics, High resolution, and more.👍
Amiga for ever
This was really cool to watch! Thank you!!
The penguin is cooking something.
Yes: the Internet and Smartphones.
N00t N00t
woo hoo!
Only TUX...
The way Windows has been going I can totally see it taking the permanent second spot within the next 5-10 years.
Glad Linux grows faster than ChomOS.
Linux older Than chromeOS.
@@deltalebg ofc
ChromeOS is Linux-based.
@@rodrigozimmermann2258 nah it Fake u Can use linux on chrome OS but it isnt based on linux
@@rodrigozimmermann2258 I know, but it altogether is a different user experience.
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.
The MS-DOS commands are still fresh in my mind whenever I have to open up windows command prompt.
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Used Windows for all of my life. Went to Linux in April 2023 and I have no reason to come back, it works perfectly.
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.
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.
@@matthewbarabas3052 „there was nothing on it“?
Its up to you to put things on it. But only things you really need…
@@matthewbarabas3052 Have you tried Linux Mint?
@@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?
Didn’t see Windows Millenium 😅
Windows 2000 is basically the same thing
@@DaScareCrowNo, 2000 was upgrade to NT and Me was upgrade to 98.
Windows ME was so bad that it never amounted to anything. I would've been surprised if it made it up on the chart.
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.
Hahaha I wondered about it as well 🤣. Apparently it was so bad that never became a thing 😅
Windows XP требуют наши сердца!
Да, было только две великих винды - 95 и хрюша. Остальное калейдоскоп говна
@@iMetmor про семёрку забыл
@@iMetmor2к была лучше XP, ну а 95 - это весомый качественный скачок с 3.х
Loved watching this! And MS-DOS showing up at the end was a testament to how many users kept their old OS, not that they came back to it! Lol!
I just love it when (rather detailed) usage and vending stats go into the compilation of such videos. Soothing
Always rooting for the penguin
The title of this video should be Desktop OS, because Linux would be at the top.
@@StuartJit wouldn’t, windows has always dominated but it doesn’t mean it’s better in every way.
@@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.
Where was cp/m on the list? Or the trsdos variants like ldos and lsdos.
do you include BSD in Linux or Unix-like ?
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.
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.
Да. Все верно!
First Windows that worked properly. However history could have been different if Apple licenced Mac OS 6 / 7 to others in early '90s
@@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.
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.
RIP to all the OSes that have fallen out of relevance 😥
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
@@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
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...
@@KrzysztofMlynarski as daily drivers, of curse, on production machines😅
i was wondering if you were going to do the same video but for web browser, checked your channel and you have already done it :D For the OSes, Windows 2000 was my favourite. It was an improved NT 4, as after all Windows 2000 is NT 5. Nice clean interface. Windows XP had too much of a "Tellitubbies" look to it, but I appreciate that it did really well become it combined home users and corporate users for the very first time and ruled the roost for a good 10 years. As for Windows 10 and 11, all of my Win 10 machines got offered the upgrade to Win 11. It's a close call but Win 11 pips it so I accepted the upgrade on my other Win 10 machines
The one that brings the best memories: Amiga OS.
What a powerful, elegant and versatile system!
Win 3.x and DOS were not mutually exclusive. Win 3.x required DOS and was just a graphical user interface.
So does win 95 and 98
No, Widows only used DOS for file system. It had its own API, process control, memory mangment etc.
@@Frahamenno, they were complete operating systems that did not rely on the user having a DOS.
@@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.
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
I like how nothing beat XP at nearly 82%
nothing will ever beat xp
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%".
@@stephan5353 Same with iCrap, before they switched to the Intel CPUs ...
@@stephan5353 dont forget win xp was always free to download if u know what i mean
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.
Windows 3.x was just an application launcher/multitasker running on top of MS DOS. Are the MS DOS numbers for computers that are *only* running MS DOS and no windows at all?
Great video. Thanks for posting it.
Of course Windows XP was the best one at that time
Still best Windows ever
No, 2000 was better.
@@user-by3cp5ri4b 2000 was a server system
XP stood for a decade!
You mean the most popular
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.
That's my experience too
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!
its good to see ms-dos still has its uses as one of the first os
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.
A lot of infrastructure still use UNIX because of its ability to run pure data storage without the need for GUI.
I think bsd would count as unix-lile, and there are bsd desktops.
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.
@@jaythejay10Meu sistema principal é o BigLinux sistema operacional incrível, seguro e lindo.
I found it fascinating that the oven at the Olive Garden I worked at ran on UNIX. so many appliances still use it.
So much for Windows 10 being the last Microsoft Windows we’ll ever need.
We don't talk about windows 11
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).
@@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
@@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.
@@JoseInATux i use windows 11. with the proper third party fixes(mostly just the start menu), its inarguably better than 10.
Something I noticed about MS-DOS was that it was copyrighted but the disks weren't copy protected. Therefore, businesses would have to buy it or be in violation of laws, but people would often duplicate their work OS disks for their home computers. This made everyone familiar with and used to using MS-DOS.
I love how the Windows logo evolved. I wonder if it can get even simpler. Like IDK, just a blue square. Just 1 pixel. Perfect.
i use arch btw
by the way, I'm good By the way, I also use arch
By the way. Me too
Me 2 btw 😂
I use Arch linux for being used in my Steam Deck
Me 3 btw
unix the goat never leaving the leaderboard and still here to this day
Industrial computers that still work but all the original programmers retired and the source code is lost, so everyone is afraid to upgrade.
I grew up with MSDOS and windows 3.14. Switched to Mac when panther came out because I was so impressed with the performance and stability. I haven’t been back. Mac has done a good job getting up to near 15%.
What impressed me the most was watched this video without ever clicking it and taking a shit. Quite impressive if u ask me.
Watched at 0.25x speed. Turned a 7:30 video into a 30 minute video.
Love these infographic videos you do, may I suggest you do one to compare internet access for example:- desktop Vs smartphone
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?
@@CaptainGizmo internet usage PC Vs smartphones
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.
"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.
Which one was your favorite?
It says computer operating system but appears to just cover desktop/workstations. Is that intentional? If not, what about internet/cloud servers? They nearly all run linux. Then smart phones, android is linux. Also isn’t Chrome OS also built on linux?
Sure, the comparison could have included all linux implementations, but then around 2015 and onward the graphs would be meaningless because everything else combined would account for less than 1% of the market share
You can categorise things in different ways. When talking market share, it makes perfect sense to separate Linux (as in desktop Linux, or GNU/Linux) from ChromeOS and Android which are very different systems, despite using the same kernel.
Brought back pleasant memories seeing XP 😊
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 :)
What Linux distro was around in 1997 and which one did you use?
@@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.
@@ranchocommodorereef Slackware and SuSE, though not entirely sure about SuSE.
FYI You can't play all games
@@gfhdlskcan't play them all on windows either.
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!
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.
Is Windows 11 a very big update od Windows NT 3.51?
@@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.
@@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.)
don't forget dos based windows
MS-DOS filled my high school years
I won a copy of Windows NT at a Microsoft promotional event in college. Loved it.
Different Unix platforms were my early work OS, HPUX, Solaris, AIX
Then Linux took over workstation and servers at work, RedHat and many more
I am on Windows 10, have not moved to Windows 11.
I also got a Mac Mini last year. It is pretty interesting to see Mac OS taking over close to 15% of the market now. Our house hold actually have more Mac OS PC/Laptops than Windows. Other than gaming, kids like Mac OS.
My first year in college I had a computer class where I wrote some tasks, say to sort a list of numbers. It was stored on a huge stack of punched cards, if you remember those. What computer system would that have been running on? About 1981.
My favorite RISC OS and Linux
that's desktop OS - do you have the data for overall ? including all cloud servers ?
Internet systems and just if not more importantly smart phone OSes.
The problem I see is that the cloud servers and such would hardly make a dent if they are compared to the OS, assuming you treat 1 PC = 1 server. But they are not really comparable.
@@kariolm2579you are really wrong. There are so many servers and they are nearly exclusively running Linux.
@@redcrafterlppa303How many? Because PCs most likely near billion if not exceed it.
@@kariolm2579 i couldn't find a direct number but an estimate based on number of data centers (8.5 million) and average number of servers in a data center (1 million) making it 8.5 trillion which of 80-90% run Linux.
I have warm memories of the old Windows 3.1/DOS days. Especially playing with memory managers trying to free up extended/expanded memory for my DOS games. Oh, and fighting with ports and interrupts any time your sound card conflicted with your modem card. Win 95 seemed clunky. I held on to Win XP for the longest time and finally gave in to Windows 7 which I still preferred over Windows 10. Still let me play my old DOS games without loading an emulator. Haven't bought in to Windows 11 yet.
You can't play DOS games on Windows 7, you needed DOSBox for windows XP onwards.
I enjoyed watching that. Thanks
0,2% of MS DOS in 2024 seems unbelievable
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.
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.
Unbelievably high or unbelievably low?
Infrastructure systems still run MS-DOS, for a variety of reasons. It's... complicated.
@@xitheris1758 The reason is simple. It work and is cheap. A centrifuge do not really need Win 5000 with orbital laser.
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.
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
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.
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...
I loved the simplicity and stability of Windows NT.
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...
Sad to see that BeOS didn't even make the cut. It was a great OS that was ahead of its time.
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
Does BSD count as UNIX and FreeDOS as MS-DOS?
Why not?
If BSD doesn't count as UNIX then what does?
Seriously amazing visual. It's hard to comprehend just how much MS has dominated the market until you realize that until very recently MS had 90% of marketshare year over year since 1985. And even now has more than 80%.
My favorite OS is probably Gentoo Linux back in the mid 2000’s. Compiling the entire OS myself was amazing.
Is windows 11 worth upgrading to?
Yes if you want more effective spyware.
Quite interesting to see that Linux is slowly receiving bigger part of the cake. Go go Linux!
Only 100 kinds to choose from.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
the video is about single user personal computers, and Linux literally won all the other markets
Was NeXTStep/OpenStep counted as UNIX like or did it go with MacOS X. Where is Solaris? Do only privately used Desktop OSes count. 🤔
Let me raise my hand. I was an Atari Dos user until November 1996. No internet, but you could do a hell of a lot on a BBS and using AtariWriter Plus along with the spreadsheet program I used at the time. Oh and the Dot Matrix Printer, and my 300 bps modem. Those were the days.
now with Servers, You will be pretty suprise :D
UNIX I guess.
Linux and BSD are the best server system
Does anyone know someone who uses macOS for servers? Me neither.
Used AmigaOS from 1988 until mid 90s. Replaced with winblows and Linux in different versions over time. Would still love a modernised AmigaOS on new hardware.
Best OS ever. Well, at least the most fun 😊😊😊
Try MorphOS on G4 / G5 (OLD) PowerMac or ArOS on x64 CPU
Back in the mid 90's I was working as an IT line manager at a large insurance company... They had an old IBM guy running the conversion from 3270 terminals to PC's and he bet the farm on OS/2 I told him that his decision was stupid and a big mistake.. He proudly proclaimed. "Son, no one ever got fired for buying IBM"... He got fired in 1998.
I remember my parent's first home computers, they were both Dells with the latest Windows version for 2007
Captain Gizmo: Does an OS video
OS nerds: "Well ackshewalay, early versions of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS. "🤓
Isn’t OS X a Unix system with Apple’s GUI pasted on top?
It’s technically based on FreeBSD. But in general there’s a bunch of other parts of it like the Darwin layer that make it pretty distinct from Unix. They also had a compact version of classic MacOS as a subsystem for running legacy apps.
OSX/macOS is legally a fully certified UNIX but it makes sense to have it as separate for the intent of the video
Later in the 2010s, WinXP had a big lead over the newer Vista. Meaning most Vista users upgraded to Win7, while XP users found it was good enough for their purposes.
I used XP until 2011, when the hardware died.
That was unexpected but I was already thinking about updating the OS, and no way I was moving to 7, which lost the one feature I was unwilling to compromise on: having windows re-open with the same geometry and location I last closed them.
That thinking had me exploring Linux on an old Pentium (not even MMX) machine, and when the time game, with only a handful of hours of experience, I installed Kubuntu 11.10 on a brand new PC, and never looked back.
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...
and by the face people are still alienated by increasing scale of telemetry
We could do with an MS-DOS 10. with all the capacity of Windows 10.
My favourite Windows version was XP Pro. I still have a machine running it so that I can use peripherals and programs that there are no Windows 10 drivers for.
What about CP/M ? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, but most of us started off with it.
I'm surprised CP/M wasn't there. It was probably the most popular OS for home PCs for a time when there were not many home PCs around, and also widely used in offices for word processing and bookkeeping.
My first word processor in the UK, from Amstrad ran on CP/M. Came with a1000-page manual for LocoScript. Took me hair-pulling months to get it to do anything other than letter-writing. Then I moved onto DOS6.2/Win3.1. I still have those original floppies.
@@terencejay8845 I had that Amstrad PCW 8256 too. It came with two 3" floppies; one took you straight into the Locoscript word processor (which is what the PCW was sold for, running on CP/M), and the other took you into the CP/M command prompt. The second floppy also had BASIC on it. Those 3" floppies are now worth a lot - I sold mine on Ebay.
AmigaOS was and is my favorite. Stayed with it until 2001 or 2002. Then went to XP and all the Windows releases. Finally added Amiga OS4.1 back into the mix, first through emulation about 4 years ago and then lasy year bought a new Amigaone x5000 to run it natively once again!
C64 Kernel was awesome. You switch on the computer - the OS is ready to use / play ;-). That's unbeatable until today.
Music cuts out early, that being said, I have a soft spot for XP and 7.
Especially the windows XP installation music is a work of art!
In about 1997 was when the “monopoly problem” began to show
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.
@@redcrafterlppa303idk I find windows 11 performs better on my laptop than windows 10 did
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.
@@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.
@@redcrafterlppa303Proton is doing wonders! But NVIDIA is holding it all back for gaming on Linux. Unless you have AMD, then you're fine.
I have a Ryzen processor with Windows 10, a Mac Mini PPC with OS X and an Amiga 1200 with a Vampire card ! All networked and connected to the internet ! 🤩
Can you make one about server OSes next?
Great video, very informative. My OS of choice is Linux, first time installed Red Hat 5.2 in 1998.
One thing I wonder: how were the MS-DOS and Windows 3 shares counted? The early Windows worked on top of DOS, so the number of MS-DOS users should be reduced by the number of Windows users.
I often think about when I assembled a new tower and put Vista on it, all the BSD crashes, then putting my old copy of XP on it and running it for 10 years without issue. Vista was a nightmare. Same with 8, went right back to 7.
It seems that every other release of Windows is garbage. This is my opinion of 11 and I won't install it. We'll see what 12 is like when it comes out, but there is a good chance that the last two boxes in my place will get converted to Linux once support for 10 goes away.
I built a machine running Vista in 2008, and it worked just fine for like five or six years before I jumped directly to 8.1. Most of the *actual* problems with Vista were either bugs that were ironed out after the first year or so, and the result of it being too demanding for most computers at the time it was released. Most of the *perceived* problems with Vista are the result of a lot of media hype and people who never/barely actually used it parroting things they've heard other people parrot on the internet.
I suppose as a power user I would have hated Vista, but when I was a teenager and having it on my first "gaming" pc, I still appreciate the looks of it.
I remember interviewing with a company back in the mid 90's they were going to OS/2
To be correct MacOS starting with OS X, qualify as UNIX, and Chrome OS runs on top of Linux, which is UNIX-like. Windows is all NT today.
Mac OS, BSD and Linux are much familiar always Android is similar with iOS because Unix Like, Windows is only different
Android this is Linux 😂@@kevinyoliveira68
@@kevinyoliveira68android is buuld on top of linux so yeah, kinda unix like. Being an phone centerd os this sint realy noticible tho
@@ItsCOMMANDer_ Always iOS is much Unix Like
AmigaOS had peak in 1992, not 1988, it came out in 1988. Where do you get your data from?
Huh? The Amiga 1000 was released in 1985. Couldn't say where the peak was though. IBM PCs caught up a lot in the early 90s and I'd say thatt in 1992 the demise was already underway.
@@OliverTacke A1000 was least sold model. Sort of a prototype, not peak.
It's percentage, not absolute numbers. Computers were spreading so fast in those days - going from being for the specially interested towards "one in every home" - that I could believe it if it continued to grow while also losing market shares.
AmigaOS came out in 1985 with the Amiga 1000. What's this nonsense about 1988?
Going from ms dos to win 95 was the greatest thing to ever happen to the home PC!
I will just say - with pride - that since 1985 when I bought my first computer, I have _never_ used DOS or any variant of Windows as my primary OS for personal use. CP/M, Mac OS 7-8-9, NetBSD, Linux. Only.
I remember our family having MS-DOS when I was 3. To me it felt like a long and dark labyrinth I had to go through every time just to launch a game :D
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
Windows 3.x , 95, 98 and ME are graphic interfaces for MS-DOS.
Though Windows 95 added preemptive multitasking through the DPMI server. I think Windows 95 is an extremely clever hack. It is a 32-bit multitasking OS on top of a 16-bit single-tasking kernel.
You are right about Windows 3.x, allthough some OS parts (HD access, networking) were already replaced by Windows routines.
But Win95 and later used DOS only as a boot loader, it wasn't used anymore once Windows was loaded which used its own kernel. The only DOS remnant was a clever hook for compatibility with certain programs ("TSR"), if such programs were not detected you were pretty DOS-free.
@@milasudrilNot really. 9x used MS-DOS as a bootstrap, before activating the 32 but kernel.
Fun Fact: you could run NT console apps perfectly well under 9x.
@@CaseytifyHow come that windows 9x could use legacy drivers. Also, all of user32.dll is implemented in 16-bit code through thunks. You will experience this when trying to open a file greater than 65563 bytes in notepad.
@@carstenhardt1589 Not really, Windows 9x is still built under DOS conventions and still has the same limitations as DOS, which is why ME turned out to be so unstable due to those design issues, the Windows 9x series are just a very crude workaround because Windows NT didn't have much software available at the time. In the best case scenario, Windows 9x would be to DOS what Android would be to Linux, but it doesn't matter, Windows 9x is still DOS, in the same way that Android is still a Linux system.
Also Windows 3x was actually more than just a window manager, it even had an built-in virtual machine that was used for some vital functions of the "OS", I don't remember completely but there was certainly more work behind it that many people believes.
I find it interesting that Unix is still being used. Guessing there are still a lot of old servers out there
I guess that MS DOS is still used somewhere in the banking sector/ old facilities which rely on old tech (maybe nuclear power plants) or something?