Luna Saphira Dragofelis asked Favorite operating system? If Linux, which …

linux, not really have a favorite distro as long as its not centos 🥴

Puniko · 2y

none, all of them suck!!!

…okay, Haiku’s cool i guess

(and what i actually ended up using: openSUSE Tumbleweed and macOS)

My go-to system now is Alpine Linux, though I might do an Ubuntu or Windows 7 setup just for the very occasional gaming. But as a favorite, as in a system that I really enjoy even if it is a completely nonsensical decision today, then Windows XP.

I have a laptop running XP Pro SP3, and a mini PC running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise so I can experiment with both, and using XP is always fun while using a Linux system just feels… boring, utilitarian. I will find fun things to do on Linux but it probably won't be too related to the system itself, but on XP I explore its APIs a lot, try to document some undocumented features, or just bask in the nostalgia. I create weird software to compensate the stuff that no longer works (like this or this), or to see just how much it uses JavaScript (accompanied by this), or to avoid using the web browser since that's heavy (this or this or this), or to explore other things like a GPS.

~lucidiot · 2y

i haven't tried anything besides windows 10 yet give me a break i live in a capitalist predatory system that forces me to use the same piece of software again and again we are all doomed there is nothing that we can do AAAA

tillian · 2y

Linux, specifically NixOS. I think declarative systems are the future, and NixOS, for all its flaws, seems to be one of the best positioned atm

Non-declarative linux distro: Arch
And for non-linux: MacOS.

Pyrox · 2y

Debian GNU/Linux. It's the Linux I've kept coming back to for years, and have been using for months, and I think it works quite elegantly despite using older software.

the f00fy one · 2y

Honestly, Mac OS X. It's basically just Unix with corporate polish, which means I get the comfort of an OS that Just Works, plus the convenience of having a Unix environment on hand at all times.

Luna Saphira Dragofelis · 7 answers · 2y

Puniko · 2y

Jyrki 🦊🐾 · 2y

~lucidiot · 2y

tillian · 2y

Pyrox · 2y

the f00fy one · 2y

Lucy Osmond · 2y