MacOS for the trackpad gesture functionality.
Mac OS
It’s pretty, functional, and has unix underneath so I can use it the way I really like to.
I use windows because what i do most is gaming and just browsing. Gaming is just easiest on my windows pc
But i use a mac for school and i run linux on my gaming pc, because i put it on my sons pc.
I prefer windows because i just know it. Been using it for decades. So its easier for me.
But linux and macOS arent bad. They are just different.
MacOS is a bit annoying though. And a lot of apps for it has a subscription… lol
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Yeah, that’s what I’m using too, mostly because I don’t want to spend time fiddling with computers these days
Windows because I have to use it at work anyway. Also it’s simple, nearly everything works out of the box and it’s still the best choice for gaming.
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My take is that newer hardware runs best with Fedora. I’m honestly not sure what combination of kernel choice, Gnome version etc makes the difference but the fact I don’t have to worry about those things is the beauty of Fedora.
Debian 11 for my personal server, openSUSE tumbleweed for my personal use. Debian for stability and openSUSE for the latest and greatest of KDE plasma desktop environment!
Been daily driving Pop OS with the Xanmod kernel for a couple years. Love it.
I’ve been a Pop OS user for several years as well. I like how much GUI control I have via the keyboard. I’ve always disliked having to switch between keyboard and pointer all the time.
I’ve been a loyal System/MacOS/OS X/macOS user since System 6. From the first time I sat down at a Mac, it’s the only OS family that allows me to forget that I’m using a computer and just do things.
Architecturally the Classic MacOS was a hacked-together mess (though I was pretty good about managing my extensions, and I put together some pretty impressive uptime with my old Power Macs), but the UI was incredibly fast and responsive. Even on my M2 Pro Mini I don’t believe I can navigate my filesystem as quickly or as easily as I could on my OG iMac running 9.2. And I’d still love to visit an alternate universe where macOS evolved from the Server 1.0 UI rather than the Aqua UI.
OS X/macOS feels a little more cumbersome, a little less personal. I don’t always love all the new features Apple pushes in its new releases. (IDEK with the new Settings menu.) And I really didn’t love the hoops I had to jump through to get PHP running on my Mini (I could have gone with an all-Homebrew setup, but I wanted to keep things relatively uncomplicated). The last version of macOS I unabashedly loved was 10.14 Mojave. But in the end, I appreciate all the things that bringing Unix to the Mac allows me to do, and there’s enough of the old MacOS DNA that I’m still mostly able to sit down, forget I’m using a computer, and just get my work done. That’s what I look for in an OS.
Fedora and Debian. It just works, can’t complain. Need to use windows 11 on a notebook, absolutely hate it.
Amiga Forever…I always wanted an Amiga
Do you mean Workbench, or AmigaOS?
I do like the aesthetics of Workbench 3.9, the pixel art for the icons is very cute :-)
What? No love for ElementaryOS? It runs really well on my Pinebook Pro.
Last time I tried it, the liveCD booted fine but the full install had an extreme yellow tint to it.
Nobody in here talking about BeOS, QDos, Geos (like windows for the C64!), AIX, or OS2 Warp? For shame!
QNX fucking rocked, I wish it had been useable as a day-to-day system. If I had to pick one it would be that sighs wistfully
My experience with AIX was very early, on first generation RS/6000s. AIX 3? I had a Powerserver-930 at home. SMIT was weird.
I want to say my exposure was 5.something? On a PPC server used for a production management database. I liked SMIT from what I can remember (the documentation was good), but everything went well silky smooth once I managed to track down bash for it and basically automated half my job with basic scripts, lol
Also fun fact, I once took the server offline by tripping over a SCSI 3 cable to the raid array (while sorting out the bird’s nest of a comms room) and it took me 3 days to restore everything from backup.
That was my first steady IT job.
Setting up the server I had involved booting & installing from (8mm) tape! Slowwwwwww.
Oh fantastic! I was one of those young whipper-snappers with the technology of the future for OS installations - floppy disks. I can’t remember what sort of tape was being used during my “learning the value of backups the hard way” experience above, but they were chonky and took about 8 hours to parse each full one so I could pop home and eat between feeding them into the machine.
It all worked like a charm though, no lost data or anything :-)
The first “real hardware” (ie: not a “personal computer”) I had at home was a 3B2/300 (mid-80s AT&T 32 bit WE32000). Installing Unix on that was about a dozen floppies. (I still have them!)
Full Unix (SVR3) on a system with 2 meg of ram & a 40 meg hard drive…
lol, I never had anything like that at home (though I did end up with a 68K based VME system at one point). That AIX server was outgoing tech for SMEs even then, and I never worked for anywhere big enough to have anything Unix-y on it after that :-/
Still, it used to be cool how much oddly mixed hardware there used to be, whereas now there’s a slick VM solution for any size of business.
Oh, I’ve always liked VME. A lot of big computers (low-end supercomputers, exotic high-end servers) had a proprietary system bus, but multiple VME busses for IO. Very nice arrangement.
I liked BeOS. Rock solid.
Yeah, BeOS looked, for about 5 minutes, like it might be the future!
And then it wasn’t :-(
I wanted to like BeOS so much. I even have a VM with Haiku on it. I occasionally spin it up, gawk at how retro-cool the UI is, look around at everything I’d like to be able to do, realize I can’t seem to find any usable software for it, close it and try again in six months.
Windows 95 and Debian were my “holy crap this is cool” operating systems as a kid.
Windows slowly went to hell over the years, and Debian didn’t, so now I mostly use Debian.
Arch, because the documentation and support is really good. And it ‘just works.’
When it comes down to it, the only difference between distros is basically just the package manager right?
I’ve never used arch but I’ve used it’s documentation quite a bit, it’s really useful
Not only package manager - init system, wiki, display manager, community support, package freshness vs stability also play their role. There are many other points that are important too.
I was going to mention wikis etc but that’s not really part of the distro that’s running on your PC, it’s part of the surrounding ecosystem.
Can you not change the init + display manager on other distros?
It’s easy to change display manager (except the case of keeping multiple of them to test out, if they are big and complex, like Gnome and KDE - there are conflicts). Some distros may have worse support for specific display managers, but I cannot say as my experience was relatively smooth for Debian, Manjaro, Arch, Endeavour and Artix. In Ubuntu I had some issues, but I could live with them for a time being because I couldn’t change the workplace OS.
But for init system it’s usually PITA. Many packages, including critical for system operation may have dependency on systemd, for example. In case of Artix Linux there are separate versions of packages for each init system that’s supported, if package has dependency on the init system.
