What operating systems do you use?
I'm currently using Alpine Linux Edge.
What, if anything, would sell me back on Linux? :)
Depends on what you want from an operating system.
As a Linux user, I have now been using macOS for some time now. I find that macOS has pretty much everything that I could ask from an operating system, even a decent package manager through Brew.
What operating systems do you use?
What, if anything, would sell me back on Linux? :)
What operating systems do you use?
I'm currently using Alpine Linux Edge.
What, if anything, would sell me back on Linux? :)
Depends on what you want from an operating system.
What operating systems do you use?
I've been using Slackware (-current, since 14.2 is old 'n busted). It's a comprehensive distro, their implementations of KDE and XFCE are rock solid, and almost everything seems to "just work" for me. It still feels like BSD, but without the inconveniences.
What, if anything, would sell me back on Linux? :)
You've got to decide that for yourself.
Arch (fast, easy, minimal) + GUIX package management on top because I like the way the system is a sea of links and breaks convention from the LHS whilst being completely compatible with it.
Imagine being able to rollback package installations at a whim. GUIX is really fun, try it!
So I use :
Maybe next year, I will change pro laptop and could not stay on Arch for this for some professional commodities.
I use the mainstream versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. By a matter of choice but also for work (making games for main platforms).
I'm intrigued on OS/Distributions/Platforms like BSD, Chrome book OS, Raspberry PI OS, Pico 8... Sadly I don't have that much time to experiment like years before, but always open to learn something cool :)
I think for Linux it will depend on your target user base. Not everyone can use a Mac computer but 'everyone' can use, and almost every server uses, some flavor of Linux.
That being said, I would like to buy a newest Mac with M1 due to the performance, but I'm OK with a normal PC (Windows 10 with the subsystem), for now, so not a real need to use Linux desktop many hours a day, than connecting with our servers running 24/7...
I currently use EndeavourOS because it was easy to setup, but i don't really like it. I tried out Void Linux and it's where my heart lies. I love everything about it, but I can't justify deleting and spending days reinstalling every little thing i have on my pc already
At home I use Debian GNU/Linux exclusively. With just a tiling window manager (i3 or sway). I have toyed with other stuff:
I absolutely need to have emacs and bash running, everything else is a second thought.
At dayjob I have to deal with windows10 and I hate it. But then --- right after DOS I went for IBM mainframes and DEC/VMS equipment, several Unix flavours. I sort of skipped Windows. I never got the hang of it and I honestly don't miss it.
Honestly, both OpenBSD and Genode seem like academic solutions looking for real-world problems. For non-desktop deployments, Linux seems to be the clear winner.
What can you do with OpenBSD and Genode that you can't do with Linux (in real-world applications)?
Alpine is certainly a nice base for Docker images.
I'm jealous of your time with VMS, but at the end of the day, operating systems are tools, not toys.
I'm on Windows now. I want to like Linux, and prefer it for development, but it's nothing that I can't do through WSL. At this point I get the best of both worlds: software compatibility and functionality, but also all the development boons. Still drive Arch on my laptop, though.