Linux and Windows.
Windows for “just works” functionality and software compatibility
Linux for light weight, customization, and overall support on hardware (ie there is some distro that will run on just about any set of hardware)
Windows 7 was definitely the pinnacle of the windows OS, All went down hill from there.
Opensuse Tumbleweed after the whole Red Hat situation i started looking for similar distros as i really liked Fedora went to Opensuse Tumbleweed had no issues almost as if i never switched distros (obviously package manager is slightly different but not too hard to get used to honestly) i mean i can even still install Rpms
Mac OS. People say it costs more, but I am not paying for a hardware and then some software that tries to make use of it. Instead I’m paying for a well thought out product that just works.
My favorite was Linux, but I got really into producing music and fl studio and all of my vsts don’t run in Linux afaik. I’m just not willing to throw away the money I’ve spent and try and find open source alternatives
Look up yabridge. I personally use pipewire+bit wig+yabridge, works pretty good.
I’ll look into it, thanks!
Linux Mint. Just works. Zero hassle. Zero shitfuckery.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
My 2nd favorite pasta, only topped by
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.I don’t stop there. I like to give the FULL name of my operating system when I use it. Example:
“What distro are you running?”
“Oh on this laptop here? This laptop is running Mint, daughter of Ubuntu, son of Debian, daughter of Linux, son of GNU! Her ancestors hail from the mountains of Copyleft, where the mighty Stallman wields his hammer Emacs to forge her people’s legendary tools!”
Anything shorter is just disrespectful.
Found the Stallman!
Paranoid Android back in the android 4/5 days slapped hard.
On my Google Nexus 5. Noice.
Nexus 4. Such a good looking phone. But the battery died long ago.
Will I get jumped if I say MacOS?
I’m just kidding, but I do like MacOS. I just find it more aesthetically pleasing than Windows and I find it easier to use and longer lasting than Windows. Like, I had to use my 2014 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM for a week because I needed to repair my main Mac. Yes, it was slow, I couldn’t have too many apps running at the same time, and I couldn’t have my customary 20 tabs open, but it was certainly usable and not too frustrating.
Love how most of the responses are different distros of Linux.
1998:
Me: I’d rather be running Linux
Systems Manager: Linux is a day late and a dollar short. Novell is the future. Microsoft might be interesting too.
She went off to teach community college after she got laid off.
Debian 12 runs all my servers. It’s like the pinnacle of stability.
Qubes OS
The virtual machine workflow has made me completely rethink how I use computers, and there’s huge security benefits of compartmentalizing your digital life through Qubes. Qubes OS successfully compartmentalizes your VMs and brings them together under one unified desktop, so even though you have several VMs running, you can see all of them at once because you see their windows as if it was a regular Linux desktop.
There are some issues with it though, such as lack of 3D acceleration for gaming, and its rather picky hardware support. Along with needing hardware that supports Linux drivers, you need a crap ton of RAM (I’m running 20 GBs on my Thinkpad T450s) for all of the VMs you run at one time. It doesn’t take as much CPU power as you’d think, though, as it uses Xen’s PVH emulation, instead of full-blown virtual machines like you’d see with VirtualBox.
However, if you have the right hardware for it, and you don’t mind dual-booting or using another machine for gaming, I urge you to give it a whirl.
Whatever the fuck my brain runs. It’s done a pretty okay job keeping me alive, and that’s worth something, right?
It’s done a pretty okay job keeping me alive
Well I’m glad it’s doing a pretty okay job for someone.
Are you… a ghost? D:
Unfortunately no
Xubuntu
- Simple, somewhat retro interface
- Highly customizable
- Stable as hell
- Fast
- Simple to setup
- Regular OS versions upgrades
My answer isn’t unique, but Arch linux is just my favorite to use. I just really love the ability to assemble things exactly the way I like them during the installation process.
I also really like the idea of a rolling release distro, meaning no major upgrades. I just run pacman -Syu once a day and things have been great.
Lastly, almost any piece of software I could want is available in the official repositories or the AUR, and it’s super convenient to be able to install things right away from the command line.
Editing to add: My work laptop is a MacBook Pro and I love it. macOS is really pleasant to use and anyone who says it’s not is a liar. Apple’s user experience game is on point
