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Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?
NotAnArdvark ( @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca ) English6•1 year agoI want to like macOS but Apple, IMO, is doing scummier and scummier things with it. For instance, I haven’t signed in to iCloud. Once a day it seems, I’ll get a little notice telling me that not all functionality will work until I’ve signed in. Ok… So I click the little ‘X’ on the notification. It opens the settings to the iCloud setup screen. That’s not what ‘X’ is supposed to do!
Acheron ( @Acheron@sh.itjust.works ) English6•1 year agoArch. I got it working 3 years ago, it’s still working, stable. On my main laptop, though, I’m running windows, and planning to install Fedora when I get the chance.
Klaymore ( @Klaymore@sh.itjust.works ) English6•1 year agoI use NixOS on my pc, laptop, and server, although I dual-boot windows on my pc to play some games.
My phone is android, I have a pinephone but I can’t get discord and other things to work well on it so it can’t be my daily driver right now. (I know Matrix chat is better than discord, I even host my own instance, but everyone in my school uses discord so there’s no way to switch).
h3rm17 ( @h3rm17@sh.itjust.works ) English2•1 year agoHow easy is it to setup nowadays? I tried it 3-4 years ago and it was a pain to set almost anything up, even after learning the NixOS way.
Robert Ian Hawdon ( @hawdini@feddit.uk ) English5•1 year agoMy work machine is macOS as the company won’t let us use Linux. My home machine is Arch Linux (obligatory “BTW”) which I migrated to after Ubuntu dropped Unity and started forcing Snaps on everyone.
However, a nice shameless plug for my Terminal file manager: DF-SHOW which is designed to work on all Unix like systems.
Drew ( @crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 year agoSame exact story for me (mac and manjaro (btw)). Nice project!
this advertisement is ok, I’ll check it and see if I can use it with tdsr. if not, I’ll report back with issues that I found.
manifex ( @manifex@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoSlackware - it’s very utilitarian for me.
Nora ( @norawibb@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoLinux Mint has always been my recommended for beginners to Linux and if I just want something stable and quick to set up.
Arch (usually EndeavourOS) when I want to do fun stuff.
linux mint is not good if you are trying to have new software.
Nora ( @norawibb@sh.itjust.works ) English1•1 year agoNot true? Obviously rolling releases have newest software but they have their own drawbacks. Debian distros still get normal updates
scrollbars ( @scrollbars@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoArch 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.
Helio ( @Helio@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoArch 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
octopus ( @octopus@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoLinux Mint Xfce here - just right for me - not too splashy, not too hard core :-)
imperator ( @imperator@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoRun Arch on my main PC. Proxmox on my home server with Ubuntu server as VM and random containers.
nobloat ( @nobloat@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year agoI’ve been using Fedora for a while now. I love it
dvidbruhm ( @dvidbruhm@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoCurrently running Fedora on my main desktop after distro hopping for a while, and really loving it so far. I find it really polished and am having a lot less issues than on most other distros I’ve used.
I’ve also enjoyed openSUSE (tumbleweed) in the past.
Seraph089 ( @Seraph089@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year agoIt used to be MacOS, but I jumped ship as soon as iOS stuff started creeping in years ago. Because I had already jumped ship from iPhones for the exact same stuff. Arch is my *nix of choice these days, or Linux Mint if I’m recommending it to someone else who doesn’t want to learn Arch.
But with that said, my daily driver is a Windows machine these days. I’m getting lazy as I get older, so (relatively) effortless compatibility is king.
DevoidWisdom ( @DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works ) English3•1 year agoArch for my main, Debian for my servers and family. I bounced around for a while over the years. At some point in the past I decided I didn’t want to use derivatives and these two fit my needs prefectly.
heartlessevil ( @heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) English3•1 year agoNixOS for several years now. It’s a big up-front cost but you can’t go back from atomic upgrades and rollbacks.
imperator ( @imperator@sh.itjust.works ) English1•1 year agoWhat makes it a big up front cost? I run Arch and I’m a big fan since I get a lot of control over it and I really like having the rolling release type of distro.
heartlessevil ( @heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year agoRather than installing packages from the command line you need to write a configuration file in nix language. This can be as simple as
services.nginx.enable = true;
but for complicated, multi-purpose machines (like end-user devices) the configuration can get complicated and you need to learn the language at the same time. imperator ( @imperator@sh.itjust.works ) English1•1 year agoAh thank you!