os-tan

A personification of an operating system, or more broadly any computer software, as a cute anime character.

The concept of OS-tans originated on the Nijiura boards on Futaba Channel in 2003, out of discussions about Windows ME and its reputation for instability and frequent crashes. From this, ME-tan was born as a clumsy and failure-prone maid. Other OS-tans soon followed suit, with XP-tan for example being depicted as a glutton for RAM and 95-tan as an older woman from the early modern era of Japan.

Examples

List of OS-tans

Microsoft Windows

• 2003 Server
• 1.0-tan
• 2k-tan
• 3.1-tan
• 95-tan
• 97-tan
• 98-tan
• 98se-tan
• 98-kun
• CE-tan
• ME-tan
• Neptune-tan
• NT-tan
• Inu-T
• Mama-T
• Vista-tan
• Chiivistan
• Visbou
• Vistake
• Longhorn-tan
• WE-tan
• Windows 7
• 7-tan
• 7-tan (SP1)
• 7-tan (Ultimate)
• 7-tan (XP Mode)
• Madobe Nanami
• Windows 8
• 8-tan
• 8.1-tan
• Madobe Ai
• Madobe Yuu
• Windows 10
• Madobe Tooko
• Windows 11
• Madobe Ichika
• Windows XP
• Homeko
• Homeo
• XP-tan
• Whistler-tan
• XP-kun
• XP MCE-tan
• XPMC

Apple Inc.

• OS7.5
• OS9
• OSX
• Jaguar-tan
• Lion-tan
• Mavericks-tan
• Mountain Lion-tan
• Puma-tan
• Snow Leopard-tan
• Tiger-tan
• iPhone-tan

Linux

• Arch Linux
• Debian
• Lindows
• Ubuntu
• KDE neon
• Kubuntu
• Gentoo
• Jurix
• SUSE
• Red Hat (Linux)
• Fedora (Linux)
• Mandriva
• SLS
• Slackware

Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Google Chrome
• Google-tan
• Internet Explorer
• Aizawa Inori
• Silverlight
• Opera
• Tor Browser

Misc

• ChromeOS-tan
• DOS
• MS-DOS-tan
• DOS/V-tan
• DOS Cat
• Dr Norton
• MSX
• 1chip MSX
• Plan 9-tan
• Viru-tan

See also

• 7-chan
• Wikipe-tan
• Flight Airplanes
• Nijiura Maids
• Personification
• Tag group:Technology

External links

• Wikipedia: OS-tan
• Know Your Meme: OS-tan

The following tags are aliased to this tag: os (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: troubled_windows (learn more).