Windows 3.1 is described as 'The third Microsoft-Windows version to add a graphical user interface to MS-DOS, released in 1992. Runs on MS DOS 2.0 or newer (was not an operating system, but a program that ran on DOS). Windows 3.1 introduced better graphic, filetype, and audio/video support to users of DOS' and is a operating system in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windows 3.1 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Windows 3.1 alternative is Fedora, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows 3.1 are Arch Linux, openSUSE, macOS and Kubuntu.