What OS are you most comfortable with?

Speaking of ChromeOS, my most favourite browsing experience was on Windows 8 and its metro UI on an 11.6" tablet.

It was quick, responsive and side by side windows were so intuitive, complete with the gestures and swipes.

An iPad comes close but still falls short. The tablet was way better, but it needs to be 11.6 or larger, I tried it with a 10.1 one and it's not the same. I have no idea why.

I also briefly enjoyed ElementaryOS.

crytt said:
For those that use Mac OS, have you considered using Darwin?
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That brought up some forgotten memories of my early hackintoshes.
 
rsaeon said:
Speaking of ChromeOS, my most favourite browsing experience was on Windows 8 and its metro UI on an 11.6" tablet.

It was quick, responsive and side by side windows were so intuitive, complete with the gestures and swipes.

An iPad comes close but still falls short. The tablet was way better, but it needs to be 11.6 or larger, I tried it with a 10.1 one and it's not the same. I have no idea why.

I also briefly enjoyed ElementaryOS.



That brought up some forgotten memories of my early hackintoshes.
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Windows Phone too yeah had same metro ui and great music quality . Loads of fun.

I still feel in terms of windows my fav was windows xp , simple and light and less junk compared to later windows, would run on 512mb ram motherboards butter smooth . I used to always keep xp dual booted with windows 8 for gaming when my oc wasn't powerful enough. Playing cricket 07 on it was so much fun and early fifas as well before I moved to Playstation.
 
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Sola Minor said:
Windows Phone too yeah had same metro ui and great music quality . Loads of fun.

I still feel in terms of windows my fav was windows xp , simple and light and less junk compared to later windows, would run on 512mb ram motherboards butter smooth . I used to always keep xp dual booted with windows 8 for gaming when my oc wasn't powerful enough. Playing cricket 07 on it was so much fun and early fifas as well before I moved to Playstation.
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Now I am reminded of that Gully Cricket game that came with my PS2. It feels weird knowing India has made many games but never anything AAA.
 
IMO, i dont just get the point of arguing over which OS is the best.
I mean why cant just we accept that each OS has their individual purpose, which they excel at serving ?

Windows at flexibility of work and gaming
Linux at its peak for full control over what's going on
Mac, It just makes you look cool xD
 
TechnologyHell said:
IMO, i dont just get the point of arguing over which OS is the best.
I mean why cant just we accept that each OS has their individual purpose, which they excel at serving ?

Windows at flexibility of work and gaming
Linux at its peak for full control over what's going on
Mac, It just makes you look cool xD
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Disagree about mac though , as a tevh enthusiaisy as much as I love Linux and even windows Mac ' just works ' and is best option for let's say ' technologically challenged ' people.

Even then my mac has never hung stuttered or even lapsed on me once compared to windows for example, for example the MacBook i got in 2012 worked for me till 2018 and got most of the needed updates and never stuttered once or lagged.

Even though macOs is locked and not great for tevh enthusiasts to upgrade and play around with , in terms of stability it's the best os.

I do agree though all OS have their purpose it upto you to choose depending on your needs honestly.
Also early macOs had some of the best production softwares which is why content creators always preferred macs.
 
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I use Windows just for gaming and planning to build a new windows Pc Soon.

My daily driver are macOS based device . Macbook Pro and mac mini and a mac Pro

The reason being is simple cannot effort downtime its sable does the work really well. I dont have to worry about patchin drivers. No antivirus software needed on top of it.

With Crossover i can run all the windows application (i.e Putty) on it nativ .

And the battery Life on the m series Mac is just amazing so love it dont even know where the charge for it is there just plug it to dock at work and the whole day it just runs
 
I currently use Mac OS and it is working quite good. UX is great and integration with iOS is seamless. I am also running Pop Os (Linux) on a secondary machine and it gets the job done. Quite stable and does not break things when updates happen.
 
I use Windows 10 on my personal laptop. Been a long time user of Windows and find it the most comfortable. I have macOS on my work laptop and have been using it for the past 10 years, so I know my way around that quite well too.

Trying to get into home servers and stuff lately, so I'm venturing into the UNIX side of things now.
 
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The reason being is simple cannot effort downtime its sable does the work really well. I dont have to worry about patchin drivers. No antivirus software needed on top of it.
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All of this is true for Windows 11 as well. Only battery life is not that great.

Apart from that, I do feel that there aren't any Windows laptop which are as lightweight and sturdy as Macbook Air.
 
For working (multiple windows, ide, coding, etc) - Macbook Pro 14" M1/M2 (Touchstrip is must)

For gaming, photoshop/lightroom, drawing house plans and pretty much everything else - Windows 11.
 
15 years of windows. Did not tried linux because don’t want to spend time on things to make them work. Never had any need and justification for buying Mac because of cost.
 
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