Drivers are precisely the reason we only have Windows, Macos and Linux as viable options.
Hardware manufacturers write Windows drivers, Linux community write drivers for basically all consumer hardware, and apple develops both the hardware and the OS with their own drivers.
>Drivers are precisely the reason we only have Windows, Macos and Linux as viable options
That is one big issue and another one is software.
Writing drivers and porting software means both time and money.
How ever if a new OS would bring lots of benefits to both users and companies, it might tip the scale and make the time and money investment worthwhile.
Of course, by a new OS I don't mean just another platform that ebables us to run software and use hardware, as existing OSes do that just fine.
By a new operating system, I mean one that enables us to use new computing paradigm, enable new types of software to software and software to hardware interactions and would make a big disruption to the market. Something with the same kind of impact as AI or the introduction of smartphones.
Hardware manufacturers write Windows drivers, Linux community write drivers for basically all consumer hardware, and apple develops both the hardware and the OS with their own drivers.