Prompt 5 of 7
Name a computer operating system
238 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- GM-NAA I/O— General Motors wrote the first operating system in 1956.
- TempleOS— Built alone over a decade as a divine commission.
85 ptsDeep Cut209 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- 386BSD
- A/UX
- AIX
- Alpine Linux
- Amazon Linux
- AmigaOS
- antiX
- Apple DOS
- AROS
- Artix Linux
- Asahi Linux
- Astra Linux
- Atari DOS
- Atari TOS
- BackTrack
- Bada
- Banyan VINES
- Batocera
- Bazzite
- BeOS
- BlackArch
- BlackBerry OS
- Bodhi Linux
- Burroughs MCP
- CachyOS
- CalyxOS
- CBL-Mariner
- ChimeraOS
- Cisco IOS
- Clear Linux
- Coherent
- Contiki
- Copland
- Corel Linux
- CoreOS
- CP/M
- CRUX
- CTSS
- CyanogenMod
- Damn Small Linux
- Danger OS
- DD-WRT
- Deepin
- Devuan
- DR-DOS
- DragonFly BSD
- eCos
- elementary OS
- EndeavourOS
- Endless OS
- Fire OS
- Firefox OS
- FreeDOS
- FreeRTOS
- Fuchsia
- Garuda Linux
- GCOS
- Genera
- Gentoo
- GEOS
- GhostBSD
- GNU Hurd
- GrapheneOS
- GS/OS
- Haiku
- HarmonyOS
- HP-UX
- IBM i
- illumos
- Inferno
- IRIX
- ITS
- JunOS
- KaiOS
- Knoppix
- KolibriOS
- Kubuntu
- Kylin
- Lakka
- LineageOS
- Linspire— Sued by Microsoft as Lindows, renamed for twenty million.
- Linux From Scratch
- Lisa OS
- Lubuntu
- LynxOS
- Mac OS 9
- Maemo
- Mageia
- Magic Cap
- Mandriva
- MeeGo
- MenuetOS— A graphical OS written entirely in assembly, floppy-sized.
- Minix
- MkLinux
- MorphOS
- MP/M
- MPE
- MSX-DOS
- MTS
- MULTICS
- MVS
- MX Linux
- NetBSD
- NetWare
- Newton OS
- NeXTSTEP
- NixOS
- Nobara
- NonStop OS
- NOS
- NuttX
- Oberon
- OpenBSD
- OpenIndiana
- OpenSolaris
- OpenWrt
- OPNsense
- Oracle Linux
- Orbis OS
- OS/2
- OS/360
- OS/390
- Palm OS
- Parrot OS
- PC DOS
- PCLinuxOS
- Peppermint OS
- pfSense
- Plan 9
- Pop!_OS
- postmarketOS
- Primos
- ProDOS
- Proxmox
- Puppy Linux
- PureOS
- QNX
- Qubes OS
- Raspberry Pi OS
- ReactOS
- Red Star OS— North Korea's in-house Linux, styled after macOS.
- Redox OS
- Replicant
- Rhapsody
- RIOT OS
- RISC OS
- RouterOS
- RSTS/E
- RSX-11
- RT-11
- RTEMS
- Sailfish OS
- Scientific Linux
- SCO UNIX
- SerenityOS
- Singularity
- Slackware
- Slax
- SmartOS
- Solus
- SunOS
- Syllable
- Synology DSM
- Tails
- Talos Linux
- TENEX
- ThreadX
- Tiny Core Linux
- TinyOS
- Tizen
- TOPS-10
- TOPS-20
- TPF
- TRON— Possibly the most-deployed operating system on Earth, in appliances.
- TRSDOS
- Tru64
- TrueNAS
- tvOS
- Ubuntu Touch
- UCSD p-System
- Ultrix
- UNICOS
- UnixWare
- Unraid
- visionOS
- VM/CMS
- VMS
- VMware ESXi
- Void Linux
- VxWorks— It has driven Mars rovers since Pathfinder.
- VyOS
- watchOS
- Wear OS
- webOS
- Whonix
- Windows CE
- Windows Mobile
- Windows NT
- Windows RT
- Windows Server
- Xandros
- Xenix
- Xubuntu
- Xv6
- Yellow Dog Linux
- z/OS
- z/VSE
- Zephyr
- Zorin OS
60 ptsRare15 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- CentOS
- Debian
- Fedora
- FreeBSD
- iPadOS
- Kali Linux
- Manjaro
- Mint
- openSUSE
- Red Hat
- Solaris
- SteamOS
- Symbian
- Windows Phone
- Windows Vista
30 ptsSchooler6 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Chrome OS
- MS-DOS
- Ubuntu
- Unix
- Windows 95
- Windows XP
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Arch Linux— Famous for a fully manual install and the bragging rights.
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Android
- iOS
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows