Not talking about all the Linux distros or different versions of Windows obviously. And my definition of “desktop” would be “able to connect to WiFi and launch a modern web browser”, since that would cover 90% of most people’s use cases.

I know of:
Windows
MacOS
GNU/Linux
GNU/Hurd
BSD
HaikuOS

What others are there?

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    In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.

    In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don’t share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.