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I'm no stranger to weird operating systems. I've run Tails from a USB stick (an OS that blew the lid off the NSA) and installed a 50 MB operating system to revive a decade-old PC. And I thought I'd ...

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We list the best alternative operating systems out there, to allow you to explore beyond Windows, MacOS, and Linux. While there are no absolute definitive answers here – everyone's use case is ...