Asklemmy

FreeBSD because it just works. I like the consistency of it.

Fedora Silverblue. It's one of the closest to a ChromeOS like "no maintenance" Linux distros with still a lot of Linux feel. I just don't have the headspace to maintain reliably anymore.

Windows 10 for my main desktop, Windows 11 on my laptop, and work desktop.

I love Linux, it's a great OS but it has a lot of usability issues alongside corporations that won't support it. GamePass and Visual Studio are the two major things I use on Windows that don't have any ability to run on Linux.

Because I know people are going to ask, the usability issues on Linux have been:

Fedora Linux: Mouse settings didn't work (sensitivity and acceleration), updating the OS bricked the boot because I had the Nvidia proprietary drivers installed and the update didn't account for that.

Manjaro: Worked great but still had the same mouse issues where I couldn't update sensitivity and setting the profile to "flat" to remove mouse acceleration didn't actually remove mouse acceleration.

In General: I've found Linux to contain a level of jank that Windows just doesn't have. It still needs a good bit of polish. Linus Tech Tips did a Linux Desktop trial for a week and documented a lot of unpolished bits.

I look forward to the day that Linux has become more polished.

Arch > anything else.

NixOs so that I can keep my dev environments synchronized, very useful as I work hybrid hours.

Atomic updates and rollbacks, and being able to mix release and unstable packages is also nice.

Before that I used to have a dotfiles/config repo using dotdrop for arch/artix/void, but then realized I was just recreating a crappy version of NixOs/HomeManager.

I dual boot Windows 10 and EndeavorOS on my PC for gaming and project work respectively.

I really wish I could say SqueakNOS an experimental OS written in Smalltalk by some crazy beautiful people, but alas that dream died over a decade ago. Imagine the excitement of being able to rewrite any part of your OS on the fly and the terror when it all went wrong.

windows, I need fusion 360

Windows 10... I have Mint dual booted, but couldn't bother to make video games work on it and have used it maybe a few dozen hours at most. School had some fairly Windows-centric materials as well that made it hard to transfer over.

I main macOS currently. And use KDE Plasma on my Steam Deck and then I have another PC that was a Windows PC that I flashed Pop!_OS on. And I really like it. It definitely feels like a Linux and macOS had a baby. But I am curious about trying a different distro.

I have a decommissioned work PC with Windows for things like MS Access or whatever strange reason I need a Windows-only application.

Archlinux with KDE. I have windows 10 on a second hard drive but I boot into it idk once a month.

Win 11 on my desktop and laptop. Unraid on my home server.

I am on Mac OS El Monterey for audio production work, and Windows 10 for general productivity/gaming.

I love Fedora, but found battery life less than optimal, and many of the programs I need for employment simply do not have Linux versions.

Using openSUSE Tumbleweed on my main PC. Works very well for my use; probably my favorite rolling release distro.

@tubbadu Linux Mint, everything I need for home is there the ONLY one I miss is amazing Affinity Suite. Incscape just isn't as good (but it's also free). I used to have a complex Excel home account tracking spreadsheet and I miss that too, but other than that nothing!

Windows 10 for my main PC, with Linux Mint in dual boot. I code in mint. I might switch over to Linux full time soon as things keep getting better and better there. Gaming was my main holdup and that seems to be less of an issue especially with the steamdeck making huge new inroads.

My laptop is the same.

My server is Unraid, which has VMs for a ton of OS just for fun. I rarely use them anymore but they exist for testing and learning and stuff.

This is my exact setup as well. I ran Windows on my laptop for years but Windows modern sleep absolutely ruined it for me. Placing my fully charged laptop in my bag on sleep and pulling it out completely dead 8 hours later is asinine. macOS knows how to sleep properly.

macOS - because it just works and I like a clean, consistent ui.

I tried Windows, again and again - and it just feels like Microsoft is incapable of designing a ui that is consistent. Drives me crazy.

Linux, well. I like to run it on servers. I love it. But on the desktop it remains a pain. Yes, a lot has improved over the years. But there is still a long way to go before I would consider it user friendly. And the worst part: I do not see how a consistent ui would even be possible.

Switched from Linux to Mac 10 years ago. Runs well and I still have a nice terminal experience. Sometimes I do miss Linux package manager.

Windows, because of gaming, otherwise I'd use a Debian based distro or Fedora.

I use Debian on my servers.

M2 Macbook Air for personal use and my freelance work and an AMD Ryzen 5600 with a Radeon 6700 XT with Ubuntu for ML/AI hobby work and Windows 11 for some minor gaming here and there.

Windows 10 because I need Windows for work but am trying to move past it

Ubuntu on my home desktop

Raspian on my Pi home server

Windows 11 for work, though I am getting a MacBook shortly. At home, I guess SteamOS? I have two young kids so I don't get a lot of time to do much on my computer besides play games. If I ever need a desktop environment and don't want to use my work laptop then I use my Steam Deck and load into the desktop. Previously I was using Fedora.

Windows 11.

• Familiarity
• Tools, Software, Workflows

Over Windows 10: Up-to-date tech stack (not necessarily anything critical)

Bad over Windows 10: Breakage through new context menu, breakage of window bar (forced grouping, no window text), introduced window bar spacing to context menu actions

Downside over Linux: Restrictions (configuration, adjustments), Annoyances (pushing of MS software and tech)

Upside over Linux: Rich usage, gaming, software ecosystem, more of a straight-forward default and customizability over many distributed options and divergence(?), usability feels better.