Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?
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Linux Mint Xfce here - just right for me - not too splashy, not too hard core :-)
Arch. 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.
My 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.
Same 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.
I 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).
How 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.
I 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!
Due to computer games, my desktop PC runs Windows 11, but my dissatisfaction with Windows is growing. I use MacOS on my MacBook Pro because it works so nicely with my other Apple devices, but I need a change every now and then and try new things, so I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a relatively old laptop and it’s a great pleasure to work on it. So at the moment I would say that Linux Mint Cinnamon is my favourite operating system.
I hate cinnamon, but everyone has different tastes: I when I use linux, if I need to have gui installed mate, or else system will go rm -rf / I saw gnome, desktop doesn’t work with orca, menu start stopped working after some updates, so mate all the way, I tried kde, but i gave up on it, it just didn’t clicked out, desktop was not accessible, menu start too. everything is bork. mate is not, for some reason, so I have it on my debian vm on utm. I’m forced to use debian, as I can’t find fedora mate arm64, or fedora with old gnome 40.0
Gentoo when I want to do Linux at an enthusiast level and out of technical interest, and PopOS when I just want everything to work.
Fedora… and MacOS
Linux 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.
Not true? Obviously rolling releases have newest software but they have their own drawbacks. Debian distros still get normal updates
Run Arch on my main PC. Proxmox on my home server with Ubuntu server as VM and random containers.
Void Linux is home. Plus, as soon as word got out that Windows 11 had those insane system requirements and the TPM stuff I decided I would abandon Winblows for good once 10 reaches end of life.
I’m using macOS also but I’m a arch/Debian guy. i know both of them. I’m not an expert but before macOS i was using Linux. I came to macOS cause of school just wanted something solid. I still help people though if I can with Linux problem when I can
my debian vm box is solid too, installed it yesterday, only audio issues with muting, for some idiotic reason, but I made a simple modification to the system, high hopes it will help with this.
It 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.
Arch 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.
Arch Linux. Once you get past the intimidating reputation it’s really nice, and the documentation is best in class.
Void Linux and NetBSD.
