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Cosplayers at Futaba Gakuensai 20 in May of this year

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As someone whose first PC had 3.1. The amount of stuff on that system that straight up just required launching in MS-DOS instead of in Windows... Yeah, 3.1 is really just a pretty glazing on top of a MS-DOS system.

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As someone whose first PC had 3.1. The amount of stuff on that system that straight up just required launching in MS-DOS instead of in Windows... Yeah, 3.1 is really just a pretty glazing on top of a MS-DOS system.

No it isn't, I'm not sure if you understand the picture I posted was an ironic shitpost that makes fun of people who push the "3.1 is a shell it's not a real OS" myth, but Windows 3.1 fully virtualizes MS-DOS, I don't know what about some apps launching in MS-DOS rather than Windows makes 3.1 not an OS, that's a very weird standard. Your standard would also disqualify Linux because most apps are natively developed for Windows rather than it.
What does Windows 3.1 lack that Windows 95 has, according to you, and what about such disqualifies it as an operating system, but not 95? Unless you don't think Windows 95-98SE are OSes either?