DOS
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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The penultimate niche: evol Linux. If you make your own distro, you will step up into the heady world of customized Linux. From there, the only way up is to customise the kernel and maybe the hardware.
I would just hop into EUFI shell tbh
Slackware Linux.
UCSD p-system. Or VMS. Or Banyan-Vines.
Go back to IBM OS/2 Warp 4! Back when there was still actual choices in desktop computing...
It is time to create your own distro with Linux from Scratch or Yocto. It will stay special as long as you don't share the installer or even the repo ;-)
https://100r.co/site/uxn.html is a fun one :D
It can run on just about anything.
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One of the more obscure variants of BSD. Alternatively, GNU/Hurd
TempleOS for the nuclear option.
I'll stick with Slackware for the foreseeable future... But if I jumped ship now, it'd probably be to Haiku. Maybe dual-booted with AROS for shits and giggles. And plan9 on my servers.
DOS!
If we want to avoid being normie, there are a lot of DOSes out there other than MS-DOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
DOS (/dΙs/, /dΙΛs/) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.[1] It primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a rebranded version, Microsoft's MS-DOS, both of which were introduced in 1981. Later, compatible systems from other manufacturers are DR-DOS (1988), ROM-DOS (1989), PTS-DOS (1993), and FreeDOS (1994). MS-DOS dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995.
And I'm sure that there are also incompatible-with-MS-DOS DOSes. The Apple II OS was ProDOS.
searches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_operating_systems_called_DOS
A ton I've never heard of on there.
i wish, you wish; it hasnt happened yet---- WE MUST CORRUPT WINDOWS USERS; SPREAD THE DAMN GOSPEL