China has a renewed plan to make a homegrown OS that could replace the need for Windows.

China’s quest for a homegrown desktop operating system isn’t new. After trying for many years, the country has not yet been able to make any significant progress in that direction. Public institutions and citizens remain highly dependent on Microsoft’s Windows operating system to this day, but that could change in the coming years.It will be interesting to see if China’s latest OS initiative will succeed, but chances are high that it won’t. Replacing mature operating systems that have been in development for decades is a monumental task, and Chinese tech companies are known for copying the homework of their Western counterparts.A little-known fact about Kylin is that at one point, it was over 99 percent plagiarized code from FreeBSD, something that damaged its reputation for several years. Modern versions are Linux-based, featuring a UI clearly inspired by both Windows and macOS.