I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

  • @[email protected]
    5•6 months ago

    all the way from 1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows

    It’s easy to forget about MacOS when it only has 15% desktop market share.

    Operating systems that started before 1991 that are still in active development (had a release in the last 12 months):

    • Multics (1969-)
    • MVS (1974-) via OS/390 (1995-) -> z/OS (2001-)
    • VMS (1977) via OpenVMS (1992-)
    • BSD (1978-) via 386BSD -> FreeBSD, NetBSD -> OpenBSD
    • HP-UX (1982-)
    • SunOS (1982-1994) via Solaris (1992-)
    • MacOS (1984-)
    • AIX (1986-)
    • RISC OS (1987-)

    Almost made it:

    • Minix (1987-2017)
    • Genera (1982-2021)
    • AmigaOS (1985-2021)
    • NeXTSTEP (1987-1997) via GNUStep (1993-2021)
    • IBM i (1988-2022)
    • SpartaDOS (1988-2022)
    • @Buffalox
      2•6 months ago

      That’s an impressive list, 👍
      I admit I forgot AIX, but the others there are reasons I didn’t consider, I have explained in other posts why on BSD and MAC OS. Same arguments are true for most of your list.
      But it’s still an impressive and interesting list. And yes AIX absolutely qualifies.