BSD might be an option. But this post is basically meant to ask the following question:
Windows or Mac, which OS do you dislike less?
For me, it’s Windows. Microsoft is shit, but at least there’s some flexibility in terms of how I can use my system and what hardware I can use it on.
One thing I disliked about the linux subreddit (and here too, I guess) is the hostility toward other operating systems. I just don’t get it. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I’ve never actually had an OS interfere with my work, and I’m generally a fan of all 3 major options. Every modern operating system is frankly a marvel of human accomplishment. If there is a task that you can’t achieve on a specific computer, it’s probably because you don’t know how yet. That said, macOS isn’t good for gaming, linux isn’t good for proprietary software like Office or Adobe, and Windows is inefficient with all of its bloat/spyware. None of them are perfect, but none of them are deal-breakers for me.
Every day I work on a 7 year old Windows PC that is locked down like crazy, but I still manage to make it do everything I need it to, including programming, image editing, collaboration, live YouTube streams, and much more. I also use an iPad at work and it, too, runs on an amazing OS, despite all of the things it is not designed to do. At home I have a Windows gaming PC and a linux server running several dozen containers, both of which are constantly being modified and never cease to impress me. When I was a kid I had Macs and learned how edit videos and use the Adobe suite, and OSX propped up the software beautifully. I also learned how to program and use the command line there. If I had the money I would love to get an M2 laptop - that thing is a beast by any metric, and if there’s a task that you can’t make that thing do, well, shame on you.
I guess my point is that while Linux is an amazing kernel, and freedom from major coporations is incredibly important, but writing off other operating systems is naiive, and I think is generally a toxic point of view.
All well and good but Arch is best and it’s what I use btw.
I think I’d have to go Mac. At least it’s UNIX-y and to be honest Microsoft has just irritated the piss out of me too many times at this point.
Same here. I actually use all three majos OSes and, as a developer, windows is the most painful thing to work with, Unix is a no brainer. WSL keeps improving though.
I don’t like the UI of macOS much (why do you have to drag programs to a little box in order to install it???) but overal it still beats Windows, with what Microsoft is putting in it lately. It is insane, the crap Windows is bundled with nowadays, and so many things can’t be disabled or removed easily.
EDIT: Fixed, was talking about MacOS not iOS
Do you think apple has any less tracking built into their os?
Of course not. Remember when Apple was all about privacy but then got caught allowing third parties to listen to your Siri voice clips?
Or how iOS doesn’t actually have any browser other than Safari? All browsers are just a skin over Safari.
Apple makes sure all of your data is funneled through them. I mean shit, even a ton of Linux distros aren’t any better. Does Ubuntu still enable Amazon search by default?
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Preferably BSD, but between only windows or mac, probably Mac. The terminal is the main reason, coding without a good one is annoying
FreeBSD > other *BSD > Hackintosh > Windows > Mac OS in a Mac hardware. In this order.
FreeBSD probably.
Assuming BSD wasn’t an option, it would have to be Windows because it runs on my hardware.
MacOS itself is fine but only runs on apple hardware which makes it a costly proposition of the bat as you’re throwing away all your hardware and buying apple hardware, which pretty much will lock you in to their ecosystem.
Then there’s apple hardware lockdown and their fast deprecation policy which breaks old but still working software and hardware. Apple dropped support for my 2008 macbook in 2012 because they didn’t care to develop graphical drivers for it, which meant I was forced to swap it to Windows 10/linux to continue using it.
Because of that, realistic only Windows would be a viable option for me, which was also my main OS up until recently.
Other smaller OS like BSD or Haiku could be interesting, but lack of mainstream support would probably prove too much work and limiting for daily use.
I’m mostly just thankful that I don’t have to make that choice, and even more so that Linux has gotten so good that I don’t even have to think about it.
Windows 10, my wife and granddaughter got machines with it installed and saying I hate it is putting it mildly.
ReactOS
I used macOS and holy shit, I desire never to touch this shit again. Everything is tied and you cant do shit.
Yeah, I think from my current point of view, I would also be looking at BSD. Not sure if anything could make me go back to Windows, unless Proton and Wine suddenly went the way of the dodo as well.
Heck, maybe I would even consider spending the premium to switch to macOS. That one at least still has the Unix base with terminal access.
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Mac. OSX gives me none of the random admin tedium I’ve have with Windows over the years.
