On Windows, the + and * registers are synonymous: both are the clipboard. On X11, the + register is the clipboard (used for Edit→Cut, Edit→Copy and Edit→Paste) and the * register is the selection (on anything but Vim, it is the latest thing you highlighted even if you didn't use Edit→Copy; it can be pasted by <MiddleMouse>). On the macOS non-X11 GUI, I don't know. On Unix-like systems, if you start Vim in a console with no access to X (for instance after Ctrl-Alt-F2 on Linux) then the + and * registers are unavailable.
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