What’s everyone’s preferred OS?
Windows utilizing WSL
MacOS
Linux - if so, what distro?
Would really love to hear about your setups too!
@crunched@twtxt.net I’ll go first! 😂
My preferred OS is LInux running CRUX, sadly I am unable to use this anymore. At one point my Desktop Environment (DE) of choice was the wonderful Xfce 👌 Very lovely desktop environment really.
My compromise is macOS as it has the best accessibility and full screen zoom and high quality hi-rpi font rendering of any Desktop/Laptop in the world.
@crunched@twtxt.net Main machine runs FreeBSD, second one runs Alpine Linux (the only sane distro imho), the last one runs MX Linux
@crunched@twtxt.net Oh and if we’re also talking servers..
#servers for me are:
- Hypervisor: Proxmox VE
- Guest OS: Currently BurmilaOS
I plan to switch my Guest OS(es) to uLinux one day (need to get it’s landing page back up, meanwhile see: https://git.mills.io/prologic/ulinux)
guys im 100% ubuntu and ios on phone macbook vps and ipad. but, im feeling da call of arch. especially after update+upgrade my ubuntu/macpro and it takes 5 minutes to like… update thunderbird(???) guis overrated? I’m getting more and more butthurt about the modern web, switched from firefox to links (lol). might be arch time
NixOs / Fedora with Plasma.
Wow! Thanks everyone for your responses!
Currently using Zorin on my XPS - I often change between this and Ubuntu - which isnt good i know haha Distro Jumping. (I’m relatively new with Linux - but the more I use it, the more I love it!)
Main PC is still Windows, but this is where I learnt the most of the command line, using WSL.
Then I have a Macbook with the M1 chip that really doesn’t see much use :/
Thanks again for all the responses! It’s amazing to see how everyone uses some in similarity but then how different your choices are as well :)
Can I also ask, what’s your reason for not using Windows? Just the security/privacy concerns? Or you find Linux easier/more faithful?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I am relatively a green thumb to all of this, what exactly does i3 enable you to do?
@crunched@twtxt.net Windows on GamingPC, w/ some basic things like browsing, writing without switching to my MBA which is my main MacOS PC. I’m using macOS for almost 15 years. It’s my daily driver for all things programming, writing blog posts&email. If gaming on macOS would be as strong as it is on Windows, I would switch immediatelly. I did in the past with WoW and Eve Online which are native to macOS. I do also have a Debian 11 installation, but only for testing. Running Debian 10 on my homelab. Was using Arch&Manjaro before, but lots of problems w/ the GPU.
@crunched@twtxt.net How to start a war, with only 5 words ? “What is your favorite OS?” :D
I use NixOS on my main desktop and laptop, raspbian on my raspberry pi 2 (probably switching to NixOS there too).
I have an old 512Mb SD card with TinyCore Linux I use for recovery on my and other pc and a CD for older PCs with Porteus for the same reason.