Most Popular Computer Operating Systems 1985 - 2024
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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.
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.
LINUX! 💪🏼 Never lost and coming back strong.
What is missing on that chart are all the VMs in the world running Linux as backend server for some Internet services...
@@Traumatree or Smartphones. Or embedded systems. Intel-based Computer Mainboards habe embedded chips that run Minix which makes it one of the widest distributed systems ever. Still, hardly anyone has ever heard of it. Such comparisons are hardly any useful if you dont specify the boundaries of what you are actually comparing. Still interesting, though ;)
@@DerJoe92 Many embedded systems run windows CE
Switched to Linux a few years back and have never regretted it. Right now running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it's running surprisingly stable for a rolling release.
QpenSuse… I will look for it!
Rocking Linux Mint the past 8-10 years.
I'm using Neon and Mint on my desktops and laptops at the moment. Many different ones on my servers. At this point there aren't many really bad experiences to be had in the world of mainline Linux distros.
Linux has gotten more and more stable.
@@quemaspana I think it depends on the "flavor" of Linux. Linux itself (the kernel) has been incredibly stable since almost Day 1. Some distros are extremely stable and have been for a long time. (Debian being probably first on the list.) Other distros, such as rolling release versions, are considered less stable because they are typically "bleeding edge" software and haven't gone through as much testing. However, I'm having a tremendous amount of luck with OpenSuse Tumbleweed, a rolling release model. (OpenSuse Leap is their static version, and has had a tremendous reputation for being extremely stable for a long time now.) 🙂
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. I was really saddened when the horrible DOS based Win 3.x won the race.
That’s how I feel about AmigaOS
Did you notice that Windows ME wasn't even mentioned? Maybe they lumped that in with '98
Stable xd i remembered i need to format and reinstall windows xp 4 times each month
Umm after the many patches!
that 0.2% of MS-DOS people: "I ALWAYS COMEBACK" edit: 1 MONTH AND WE ARE CLOSE TO 1K LETS GO BOYS
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 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.
The ups and downs of Linux surprised me: 2005 > 2%, 2008 > 2.5%, 2011 < 1%, 2018 > 2% 2023 > 3% 2024 prob. > 4% I am already looking forward to the Linux reaching the 5% mark in the next 2 years.
I am more asking why it wasn't more poplar before the 2000s compared to others.
@@tuxflyer Before Ubuntu introduced automatic hardware detection to the Linux world, Desktop-Linux installation was only for computer scientists. I tried to install SUSE in the late 90s. Because the Internet was too slow, you needed 5 CDs. And durring the installation you had to keep changing CDs. The order was not CD1,2,3,4,5 but something like 1,2,3,2,3,1,4,5,2... The installation process installed almost all the software available for the system and it took hours and always ended with a cryptic error message. Linux was not very accessible for beginners back then. I don't like Ubuntu anymore, but I have to admit, that Canonical has done a lot to make Linux more popular and fun.
@@jantack7186 so, you are young 😀 I started with 1.44" disks. There was a copy station in one of our local book stores where you can get the disks created. 44 of them were required for the default distribution (an early version of SuSe). And you always prayed that none of them failed. Nightmare having one disk corrupted after a 2 hour installation.
On important servers, especially public ones, there is already 90% market share for Linux. Linux just works, Apple and Microsoft are based mostly on pure Marketing and persuation, perhaps bribing. Several companys evaluate Linux even on the desktop due to the poor Updates for "the last windows ever". Windows 10.1 (marketing speech: Windows 11) just crossed the red line with the need for an useless microsoft account, persuading users to put their Data on Onedrive despite having a professional solution like Nextcloud on the computer. This breaks compliance. Since an OS is just a start-ramp to mostly webbased applications nowadays, it doesn't really matter if the clients run on windows, Linux, McOs or even Chromebooks. Obsolete Windows-only legacy software can be used in Terminal servers until the software manufacturer has a webbased application ready or has done his homework and made his software available cross-platform. Or they learn it the hard way and go out of business in 5-10 years since there won't be any computers in companys left were you can install Windows-only software.
Everytime Microsoft fucked up, Linux got more traction. But seriously, with the state of Linux nowadays, why aren;t more people using it and why aren't hardware vendors installing it by default, or at least as an option? Valve has showed us that it can be done.
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.
That was the 80s my friend, when cie forged our future we have today. The 90s was the era of Internet for everyone.
If you want to be pedantic, sure. My point was actually about how early adoption helped me to not fall behind with tech
Dude I was there, there was nothing special about it
So, what is the current era? Platinum?
@@Hr1s7i titanium
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!)
However, the Amiga taught everyone, for Desktop native and multitask, 3D Lightwave , Gui, plugin, graphics, High resolution, and more.👍 Amiga for ever
It's been a hell of a ride, but I've switched all my machines to Linux. Microsoft is too intrusive and bloated now.
> 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!
which year is that going to be
have used linux as daily driver for 15 years only use osx to push iOS to app store windows only to help friends ... when neighbors need a windows fix I install Ubuntu onto their machines and they luv it
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.
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.
Not counting how 68000 memory management was/is miles ahead of x86 and their big-endian bit register order that was a real mess. I wish that cpu was still alive today.
I don't get the moment in June 88 where TOS overtakes the AmigaOS. Both machines were at their best at that moment. This probably shows the US numbers only for those machines and does not include the European markets. Europe did not get the Nintendo Entertainment System invasions, so we used real computers for quite some time as a games platform.
@@JoaoVentura ... apart from that, the triumph of the Amiga with the A500 in Europe only really took off in 1987.
@@JoaoVentura Yeah it's definitely just showing the US market share. I was at school around '90 and literally everyone I knew had an Amiga or an Atari ST, there was like one kid with a PC. But this graph shows MS-DOS on 62%, Amiga on 0.7%, and Mac on 5%. In the UK it was more like Amiga 50%, PC 5%, Atari ST 30% and the rest were still on 8-bit computers. Nobody had a Mac. Macs were used for Desktop Publishing and that's it.
@@BartechTV Yeah, and in Europe, I personally feel it was the other way around than in this graph. The ST started out the most popular one (and far cheaper), but by the time 1898 came around, the Amiga really took off (Batman pack helped a lot), and most likely only then passed the ST's market share, and remained above the ST until both platforms basically died together in 1993/94 like the siamese twins they were. I don't agree so much with the 5% PC market share you indicate. For games in 1989? Sure! But by then Lotus 1-2-3 (the real murderer of the Amiga) was surely used by most accountants in Europe.
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.
ROFLAO (I'm stealing that meme). I went full penguin this year because of Windows 11.
I think that's because all major brands were installing windows latest releases not necessarily the people choice.
you literally don't have a choice, either use whatever the latest windows is or cripple your user experience with less feature rich programs in Linux or cripple your user experience with 0 control over your own device on Apple
MS made it cheap and accessible to everyone. It wasn't that people were swapping to Windows, it's that more people now had access to a PC due to MS low cost (in comparison) and ease of front end (no need to know a coding language).
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.
@@danielschwarz531 They're counting ChromeOS separately so I don't think Android should be counted as Linux
always root for the penguin! :)
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?
The MS-DOS commands are still fresh in my mind whenever I have to open up windows command prompt. dir
Copy con Name Dir Type file name MD Name CD dir Name what a days of childhood. Still in my mind
My favorite OS is probably Gentoo Linux back in the mid 2000’s. Compiling the entire OS myself was amazing.
ldk, for me compiling was a necessity for me (because HP and their broken laptop 8BB3 motherboard quirks ie. bugs that they wont fix), and I don't really find fun. It is for the first time, but then It gets annoying.
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.
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 😅
As a Linux user since 1995, as main OS since 2001 and only OS since around 2006, I feel I have backed the right horse here. It's the only one of all of these which has been (more or less) continually on the rise.
Linux. I'm a Linus user and this video doesn't include Android os witch is an ARM compatible desktop operating system with full support for desktop peripherals via its Linux kernel. But most people don't know that.
Atari TOS gave birth to many todays top notch applications! Like 3D Studio Max, Cubase, Logic…
Obviously, you never owned amiga
@@chezchezchezchez Why you say something like this? I did own, and I own today several Amigas...!
@@zarjesve2 Because he's a commodasshole
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.
I was delighted that MS-DOS never died. It dipped out of top ten in 2015 but it never did.
Amiga O/S was up there - programming for it, you started at address $4 - the only guaranteed address, then used that to ask the O/S for more functionality which was loaded dynamically. It seemed like magic in the late 80s, coming from the C64 which was basically a list of routines at fixed memory addresses.
I just love it when (rather detailed) usage and vending stats go into the compilation of such videos. Soothing
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...
@ as daily drivers, of curse, on production machines😅
Great video. Thanks for posting it.
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
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.
Loved Windows ME. The soothing and Mindfulness giving blue screen. ❤
For me, it was the AmigaOS. Introduced me to video production with Newtek’s Video Toaster. Some of you might be more knowledgeable than I am, but I think that Amiga/Newtek connection lives on today. Amiga/Newtek did the Video Toaster Card, Newtek then did the Video Toaster System, Newtek then did the TriCaster, now Vizrt has the TriCaster Hardware and Software…. Now everyone has some type of “Creator” software (Procreate, Final Cut Pro, VideoStudio Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc.). Certainly made an industry, too bad Commodore didn’t see the benefits.
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.
Did the same, only I'm running Arco Linux, which is basically a bit more user friendly Arch, 100% compatible with Arch, pacman and everything. Bugs that exist on Windows for years were gone the second I booted up, I was like "SO IT WAS MICROSOFT'S FAULT AFTER ALL!!"
Hey ! I don't use Linux OS but ReviOS who a simplified OS of Microsoft target to the gamers
I went full Penguin this year. I jumped from Windows after reading the Windows 11 TOS, and seeing all the spyware Microsoft put on it. Shutting down Cortana completely was difficult enough in Win10; Windows 11 takes it to a whole new level. Now that Steam's Steamdeck is doing well, I think we're going to see a big growth spurt in Linux. Pretty much all of the games on Steams will run on Linux using their Proton emulator; works seamlessly. I'm currently running Fallout 4 on Mint with absolutely no performance issues. I don't do the dual boot thing; tried that once and lost a whole drive due to MBR corruption. However, I do run a copy of Windows 10 on VMWare which I use for development. Eclipse just can't compete with Visual Studio, and unfortunately, I've not been able to get Visual Studio to run with Wine yet.
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.
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!
That's market share only - there was a dramatic growth in overall numbers of computer owners during that time, of course. And I think Commodore sold about twice as many C64s, globally, as Amigas, though each at a far lower price point. But yes, pretty remarkable!
do you include BSD in Linux or Unix-like ?
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
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!
MacOS since 2008. My best experience I had was AmigaOS. I never had more fun with a Computersystem.
At least the Amiga had games. What's fun about a Mac? Closed system with almost no games.
The windows 11 popularity is forced, I didn't know they sneakily upgraded my windows 10
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
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.
Wait, I've been using Macs my whole life. When did we suddenly get up to 15% market share?! That's crazy.
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.
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.
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
Thanks for a fascinating presentation. Windows 10 user here. I wanted to upgrade to Windows 11 in early 2022, but my desktop computer did not have all the required components for the upgrade. Pretty ironic since I purchased that computer from ... The Microsoft Store.
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.
This was really cool to watch! Thank you!!
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.
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.
Where was cp/m on the list? Or the trsdos variants like ldos and lsdos.
or OS/9? but CP/M really belongs on the list. it was the go-to operating system for most all early homebrew computers. Maybe that's why it's not on the list; too early?
My favorite RISC OS and Linux
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.
It’s great. One thought - I would have had a moving bar at the bottom Showing the total number of PCs as it grew over the years.
IT's amazing that MS-DOS still holds out, even with a mere 0,2%, where so many other have come and gone. It's also clear window reins supreme on the PC market, and the only times it looses, is because it cannibalizes itself with a new version. Also to note is, that Linux, even thought tiny, is about the only one that kept growing continuously on this chart, contrary to all other non-windows out there.
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.
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
Solus is a great Linux distro, it's rolling release, very stable, and just have to install it once. Then install all updates and restart to run the latest version of the kernel and the operating system. Linux Mint might be a better beginner Linux OS since it's based on Ubuntu and has a bigger software repository. Mate desktop is very good, but XFCE desktop is great too. PopOS with its upcoming Cosmic desktop written in Rust looks very interesting too! Solus discontinued the Mate desktop edition even though Mate desktop v1.28 was released a while back, just not announced officially yet. Now there's the Solus XFCE Beta which works really well. Hopefully they make it easy to install the Mate desktop next to XFCE. Solus is the way to go if you want hassle free and stable rolling release, no need to reinstall major new versions! (Posted Thu 18 April 2024 at 12:20 UTC)
Great video, and it was like watching my geeky life play out in front of me! Windows NT for me! ☺️ ☺️
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
I find it extremely hard to believe that Mac OS X didn’t beat out Mac OS 9 until 2009. That’s a full six years after the last Mac OS 9-bootable machine shipped, and 3 years after the last machine capable of running Mac OS 9 apps at all shipped.
Who cares about Mac?!
I wonder if there were just a ton of older Macs being strung along in the education space. I bet there were lots of machines that either couldn’t run Mac OS X or else ran it very poorly and school IT departments just kept them running on OS 9. That’s the only explanation I can think of.
@@grauwolf1604According to statistics, at least 14% at the moment
@@tapah_5very expensive laptops new , still expensive used
Favorite OS? Clearly Windows 7, the only Windows I have actually liked. Followed by Linix Mint. I loved the graphics, the functionality and the ease of use of Win7
I would suggest ZX Spectrum BASIC is missing from this list in 1985. At that point they had around 40% UK market share in home computing. They'd sold 5 million units of Spectrums by around that time, compared to the C64's 3.5 million.
Sad to see that BeOS didn't even make the cut. It was a great OS that was ahead of its time.
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?
Brought back pleasant memories seeing XP 😊
Ms dos in 2000: I will be back. Ms dos in 2024: I’m back.
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...
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.
Fascinating! It would've interesting to include an "others" category, though. My all time favourite (in it's own time) was OS/2. It's multitasking with genuine multithreaded operation, frugality with resources and it's speed was miles ahead of Windows but unfortunately, the market went with Windows. It's not always the best that wins in this world.
I really miss my C64...it was like a scratchpad where you can simply begin programming any idea and presto: You'd get results. Can't do that with today's computers.
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
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
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!
the Amiga is still my favorite computer! caused beautiful years! I would also accept an Amiga 5000x machine!
Nice comparison! What about the evolution os os in server environment ?
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.
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.
Windows NT/2000 did exist as Workstation and Server versions. This changed with Windows XP/2003 And "Linux" is not an OS. 99% of the people think about a distribution around the real "Linux" kernel
Indeed, as far as I know, Chrome OS is based on a Linux kernel.
My favourite were the later versions of OSX up to about High Sierra 10.13. I have used nearly all the operating systems mentioned in this video, even VMS, OS2/ Warp, Irix, HP-UX and such. I have also used Linux and Windows desktops and recent version of macOS.
very nice video, The name of first track here is ? I used to have it on spoti but was deleted, dont remember the name.... or is Beyond the finish line remixed? anyone know?
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...
Stability?? I was an IT guy back then and there was plenty of pc to redo....Well it was more stable than 95 but not 98!!
I'm missing CP/M.
I remember interviewing with a company back in the mid 90's they were going to OS/2
Widows XP was my old classic, other than MS-DOS it was the first rock solid experience for GUI.
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
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.
I have been a Linux user for about the last 15 years. I was a bit surprised to see that it is currently 3.9% I was used to it being between 1 and 2 %.
Could you please make same video for server OS?
Linux is the future. For privacy, for security, for freedom.
i've been hearing this since the 90s...how long does it take to usher in the future, it's already been over 30 years
Does BSD count as UNIX and FreeDOS as MS-DOS?
Why not?
If BSD doesn't count as UNIX then what does?
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.
I think this may only be personal computers towards the end. As in non business applications, just like they do not include phone os's. If anyone has been in a factory the use of dos and win95 is incredible. In one factory I worked in there where over 100 machines running dos in the late 2000's
The Linux is about to awaken! 4% is a big deel for them
This is because of Steam Deck/Steam OS
Valve has done a lot for Linux. Thanks to them and the Proton project running windows native games on Linux has become nearly a non-issue and the ease of gaming has always been a major thing holding many home-pc owners back.
Things will get real once we get to 10%
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 am very glad that Linux is gaining popularity on desktop systems. It's already very different from what it was, plus the compositing by Wayland
Bom ter acompanhado isso. O WINXP, DOS e o Win7 ainda estão na área!