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which OS do you like the most? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by pax@sh.itjust.works to c/unix@sh.itjust.works

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Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?

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[–] sauce@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MacOS for work (very simple wireless packet captures, full m$ office suite with little effort). Servers are Debian, used to be Arch but I didn't upgrade enough / I upgraded too much / you get the idea and things went boom too often (Nextcloud in particular). Does SteamOS count too? I think it's pretty rad.

[–] borari@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you run SteamOS on a Steam Deck, or are you just running it on a PC? Actually has Volvo even released an install ISO for SteamOS?

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[–] Helio@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch Linux. It's too convenient. The AUR hosts a massive amount of packages, wiki is super detailed and covers solutions for all sorts of edge cases. Needs a bit of tinkering to get started but once things are set up it's very stable, and still gives you a lot of freedom to tinker with your system however you want. The only other option I've considered is NixOS which has some pretty interesting features

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[–] scrollbars@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch because my installs keep working, and I'm really used to it at this point. In the future I'd be interested in trying something like NixOS/Guix, Silverblue, or Qubes.

The mobile landscape is just a privacy clusterfuck. I flip flop back and forth between Android and iOS a lot. Maybe one day I'll take the Graphene plunge, not sure.

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[–] drownedPhoenician@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm mainly using Fedora these days, but for some games I still have to dualboot Windows, which I can't say I'm enjoying. Just over an hour ago the Nvidia drivers crashed. On Windows. Repeatetly.

Anyway, I'm quite happy with Fedora but I haven't tried many OS to be honest. I prefer stability over the slight advantages other OS might have

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[–] MoreCoffee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been a linux user since 1996. I've used a lot of distros over the years slackware/gentoo/debian/arch/redhat/ubuntu.These days I've been running Fedora and find it pretty great. I've gotten a bit too lazy for distros like Arch and prefer something that just works without too much tinkering.

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[–] FirstResident@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MacOS for work and most things, Windows for gaming. After years of distro hopping I am now enlightened, free stuff is free for a reason.

SteamOS on my Steam Deck is great though, and gives me hope for the future of Linux gaming, but it's not here just yet.

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