"Operation system names" table from the Meson build system manual. It lists, Android, Darwin, FreeBSD, Windows, Linux, and more

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   Sergey Bugaev (bugaevc@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:50:30 JST Sergey Bugaev

   #Meson needs to learn that Linux is not an operating system unto itself.

   No really, like 95% checks for host_machine.system() == 'linux' are wrong, unless you really care about *kernel* specifics like Linux kernel modules. Typically what you want to check is:
   - is my compiler GCC / Clang? (use the Meson compiler object for that!)
   - is my libc (a recent enough) glibc?
   - does this system use a "freedesktop" GUI stack?
   - etc etc