ill tell you if you bark like a dog

like a little dog.. no, a big dawg... yeah

I DONT BARK

well basically theyre moe-ified operating systems!! they started from futuba channel i think….its pretty simple actually!!ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

uhn.. but mimsy.. youre barking right now, arent you? aaahn~

ME-tan is clumsy because her OS is unstable. The exclamation mark represents the Active Desktop error you'd see if you had a .jpg as a background since MS was nuts enough to use Internet Explorer to handle desktop backgrounds (they wanted you to be able to put a whole ass webpage as your desktop), and that was a complicated enough component that it could have been a reason for the crash. Since no one really used active desktop to do anything but display non-bmp backgrounds, it never was the issue, but on an unsafe shutdown, you'd see the big triangle.
ME-tan is cute, but Windows ME sucked ass and I was unbearably glad to install XP back in the day, even if RAM was a little tight with 128MB in the machine. Still better than having AOL lock up the whole computer under ME.

XP-tan has big tits because her OS needs a lot of RAM.
95-tan wears a traditional outfit because 95 is old.
3.1-tan is a lolibaba because 3.1 is ancient, but Windows 3.1 is very light and small.

I don't know why 2k-tan wears the school swimsuit but it's very cute. She has tits due to RAM requirements, but not as big as XP's.

>>5433

i looked them all up! very cool

https://www.ostan-collections.net/gallery/
find your favorite os-tan here

ME and 2k are the cutest, but 3.1 is probably my favorite after those two

admittedly, I've probably ended up spending more time with Windows 3.1 than ME or 2k (both replaced very quickly on my own systems by XP, while 3.1 has ended up being used more under emulation and I've probably had a 3.1-tan background on almost every install)
never been super big on XP-tan for some reason
95-tan is pretty good too, although I think I've seen less 95-tan pics than 3.1-tan ones

this is the real power of lolibaba ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

so os-tans' cup size depends on the ram of the puter... waoooww so cute

Wikipedia actually has an okay write up on a lot of them.

>MS-DOS-tan is most commonly represented as a shy schoolgirl, with black or dark grey hair in pigtails decorated with "DOS"-shaped hair ties; her hair ties are usually blue, but are sometimes depicted in the colors of the MS DOS prompt logo as shown in Windows. She wears round glasses, a white button-down blouse with a light blue skirt and suspenders. She carries around a keyboard, and is usually peeking around corners.

>Windows 3.1-tan is depicted as a gothic girl with a cat named "DOS-nuko" who represents MS-DOS 6.22. Some depictions of her are cheerful or deadpan. She has long white hair with red eyes, a purple bow on her hair, a lavender gothic dress and a purple bow on her chest with a "3.1" brooch. Her cat can transform into a cat girl with a nurse outfit. This specific design is called "Grandma", but she mostly looks young. 3.1-tan is called "oobaba-sama" which means "Grandma".

>Windows 95-tan is depicted as a Yamato nadeshiko who fought a battle with the Mac-tans in the 1990's and has retired. She was aware of developments of the Internet and multimedia, but however, she is unfamiliar with developments after Windows 95 such as the USB. She has long brown or orange hair, brown or pink eyes, and a bow of the Windows logo, a kimono of the hana256.bmp wallpaper in the Japanese version of Windows 95 and black sandals. She is often depicted as a motherly and kind woman.

>Windows 98-tan is a shy girl with an appearance of a middle school-aged person. She also has a mecha box, just like Windows 98SE-tan. She is 98SE-tan's sister. She has a dark history notebook. She has a blue bob cut, a golden 98 hair clip, blue eyes, a sleeveless white shirt and a blue or black skirt, blue or black thigh highs and brown or black shoes. She also has blue or black gloves.

>Windows 98SE-tan is depicted as a girl with an appearance of a middle-school-aged person who is prone to aggression and holds a can opener with her. She is a fan of professional wrestling. She has a mecha box, which is inspired by Vulcan from Zatch Bell. She has periwinkle or blue hair, a side ponytail with a cherry shaped hair tie. She has a green or teal sailor uniform.

>Windows Me-tan is a clumsy girl and tries her best in everything, but as a result, she always fails, but is always cheerful. She is the first OS-tan in the Futaba Channel, being created on August 6, 2003. She has mint green braids with an ahoge, a blue maid dress, with an orange or red bow on the chest with the Windows Me system restore icon. She often carries a leek with her and her favorite food is a Japanese roll cake. 2K-tan is her guardian.

Of course there are a lot more of them for the later iterations of Windows. Some people have made some for Unix and Linux. And while it's harder to find, some people have made them for more obscure operating systems like BeOS, Haiku (spun off from BeOS...it's actually fun to use), AROS Research Operating System and of course things like iOS and Android. On Japanese internet you can find them for even weirder operating systems.

FYI, if you ever feel like trying out some really obscure OS, this website has a great selection of ISOs you can grab and attempt to run in a VM! https://archiveos.org/