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Basically Linux .
I mean yeah. It doesn't have to even be "Linux" but a smaller required core library, instead of every application getting forced onto a user computer. I've a theory that over 90 percent of a computer's hardware is only required because of coding standards that could be improved. (Small more efficient code versus get it shippable and move on)
I'm a little impressed Linux hasn't had the massive bloat that most of the programming industry has taken on. "Let's pull in every library, take up more space and never optimize code". Linux seems to have avoided that, and that's a good sign. I don't even think it's a OSS thing, because many OSS software slowly bloat up when people keep adding features to them. Linux has avoided that so kudos to them.