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title: "What is an operating system?"  
description: "What is an operating system?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-04-02  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96674/what-is-an-operating-system  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "operating systems"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is an operating system?

What is an [operating system](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/229069/operating-system-development)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- An **operating system** is a software programme that manages and operates computing devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers, supercomputers, web servers, automobiles, network towers, smartwatches, and other similar devices. It is the operating system that makes it unnecessary to know a coding language in order to interact with computers.
- It's a graphical user interface (GUI) layer that serves as a bridge between the user and the computer's hardware. Furthermore, the operating system oversees the execution of applications and manages the software side of a computer.

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