TempleOS. All other operating systems are sinful.
Do you pray before logging in?
It wouldn’t let you log in at all if you didn’t. It’s devine 2FA.
You don’t need to log in with TempleOS because God said so.
Linux of course. I don’t invite Apple or Microsoft into my computer. Apple has good hardware though so I can understand using a mac.
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.
that (mostly) just works.
FTFY
As a Mac user since 2007 it feels like that statement gets a little less true every couple of years. But for me it’s still light years ahead of Windows when it comes to my workflow.
I use EndeavourOS. I like pacman and AUR, as well as the fact that Arch-based distros are well-supported by most software. I’m too much of a noob/too lazy to setup an OS without a GUI installer though, which is why I prefer Endeavour over Arch.
I use it too, it’s great. I’ve been using Linux for decades and I know it intimately but why waste time fiddling with installing when Endeavour OS can do it with sane defaults while I brew a coffee ‽ I recently got a new laptop and I was ready to play Baldur’s Gate 3 from the old SSD in 20 min.
I did spend a minute installing btrfs-assistant and btrfsmaintenance though, it’s nice being able to boot a snapshot from grub just in case. I could probably have grabbed Garuda Linux instead but I’m happy with Endeavour.
I’ve installed Arch myself plenty of times, and I use Endeavour now just because I don’t feel like spending the time. Automation is a wonderful thang.
Windows 7.
It was the peak of windows.
It was slick. It was fast. It was stable, and it was super easy to use. Never had a single problem with it, and unlike past windows OS’s it didnt require regular reformats to clean house for stability.
Unfortunately its dead now, and Microsoft abandoned that approach and switched to a slow burn approach at walled gardening.
I use Linux now, have been for years, because I saw where microsoft was going when Win10 was in previews, and there was no way I was going to be part of it… So I jumped ship as soon as EoL was announced for Win 7
Launch by hitting windows key and start typing (this is now a bullshit web search)
The taskbar was usable (fuck this app grouping)
Virtual desktops
Fast
Stable
Looked fine
Hit F8 for recovery options on boot
System rollback
Windows because I know how to use it.
Debian 12 runs all my servers. It’s like the pinnacle of stability.
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 :-)
Debian Linux on the server: all the flexibility I need in a server OS.
macOS on the desktop: it just gets out of the way and lets me do my job
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
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
I used to use windows but recently I installed Linux Mint to see how Linux works and to get more performance for gaming from my thinkpad.
Currently running fedora, because it is stable, easy to use and just works. Also, gnome is imo the best designed major, full-featured desktop environment that exists out there (even including windows or macos).
You might get a more tailored experience with window managers but im currently to lazy to set that up. I did use dwm for a time though, but it wasnt really flexible enough for me.
Dwm is literally the most flexible wm imaginable, its just not for everyone. The intention is that the codebase is so small that you can just program whatever you want (or download patches from others and do your best to make them all work together)
I’ve been using Unix in one form or another since the mid 80s, so that’s pretty deeply ingrained by now.
I was strongly biased towards Solaris & OpenBSD for many years (Solaris on nice Sun hardware, OpenBSD on small machines) but both began to annoy me a little bit recently, so I switched to Void linux. (Also, there was ONE feature of Linux that I REALLY wanted - extended attributes (name=val) in the filesystem. Love those.)
I’m fascinated by Multics & Control Data’s NOS (70s mainframe OS’s), but that’s for historic study, not actual use.
I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia
CDE had the advantage of being useful with a default config, at a time when most window managers required HUGE amounts of fiddling to get a nice environment.
Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like €7.50, lol
IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about €50, which was a lot of money back then!
Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.
Mac OS
It’s pretty, functional, and has unix underneath so I can use it the way I really like to.