• freamon
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    722 years ago

    TempleOS. All other operating systems are sinful.

  • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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    312 years ago

    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.

    • DJDarren
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      252 years ago

      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.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    302 years ago

    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.

  • Evkob (they/them)
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    212 years ago

    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.

    • @ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca
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      32 years ago

      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.

    • @StantonVitales@beehaw.org
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      32 years ago

      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.

  • darcy
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    192 years ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

    • @OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one
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      I don’t stop there. I like to give the FULL name of my operating system when I use it. Example:

      “What distro are you running?”

      “Oh on this laptop here? This laptop is running Mint, daughter of Ubuntu, son of Debian, daughter of Linux, son of GNU! Her ancestors hail from the mountains of Copyleft, where the mighty Stallman wields his hammer Emacs to forge her people’s legendary tools!”

      Anything shorter is just disrespectful.

    • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      132 years ago

      My 2nd favorite pasta, only topped by

      Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

  • @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    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

    • @glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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      72 years ago

      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

    • @LucyLastic@beehaw.org
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      32 years ago

      Yeah, that’s what I’m using too, mostly because I don’t want to spend time fiddling with computers these days

    • @LucyLastic@beehaw.org
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      12 years ago

      Do you mean Workbench, or AmigaOS?

      I do like the aesthetics of Workbench 3.9, the pixel art for the icons is very cute :-)

  • @BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    92 years ago

    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

  • @Loki@feddit.de
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    82 years ago

    Whatever the fuck my brain runs. It’s done a pretty okay job keeping me alive, and that’s worth something, right?

  • ellesper
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    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