OS/2 Warp was amazing.
It ran Windows applications natively and crashed less than Win 3.1 — but still had some hardware compatibility issues.
It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in — unlike Windows at the time.
I really wanted to switch to it, but Win95 won…
> It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in
Rexx mentioned! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx
Used Smalltalk for the role .NET has nowadays on Windows, and SOM was so much better than COM.
However that price tag was horrendous as OS for home computers.