diff --git a/src/Common.ts b/src/Common.ts
index 3d4cdaf6..043514fe 100644
--- a/src/Common.ts
+++ b/src/Common.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {App, Editor, FileSystemAdapter, MarkdownView, normalizePath} from "obsidian";
-import {OperatingSystemName} from "./settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings";
+import {PlatformId} from "./settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings";
 import {platform} from "os";
 
 export function getVaultAbsolutePath(app: App) {
@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ export function isWindows() {
 }
 
 /**
- * This is just a wrapper around platform() in order to cast the type to OperatingSystemName.
+ * This is just a wrapper around platform() in order to cast the type to PlatformId.
+ * TODO: Consider renaming this to getPlatformId().
  */
-export function getOperatingSystem(): OperatingSystemName  {
+export function getOperatingSystem(): PlatformId  {
     // @ts-ignore In theory, platform() can return an OS name not included in OperatingSystemName. But as Obsidian
     // currently does not support anything else than Windows, Mac and Linux (except mobile platforms, but they are
     // ruled out by the manifest of this plugin), it should be safe to assume that the current OS is one of those
diff --git a/src/settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings.ts b/src/settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings.ts
index e76776ce..9a16b749 100644
--- a/src/settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings.ts
+++ b/src/settings/ShellCommandsPluginSettings.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: ShellCommandsPluginSettings = {
  *
  * @see NodeJS.Platform
  */
-export type OperatingSystemName = "darwin" | "linux" | "win32";
+export type PlatformId = "darwin" | "linux" | "win32";
 
 /**
  * All OSes supported by the Shell commands plugin.