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What OS is most comfortable to you?

  1. 2021-03-23 at 6 PM UTC
    #41
    Kev Space Nigga
    windows xp forever baby, well kind of. i had to upgrade to 7 because finding drivers became a pain in the fucking ass and reaching the point of needing to pay a programmer to make the latest hardware work on it, so i dragged my inner child kicking and screaming into our new apartment unit 7.

    now im back to the same situation as before, except this time its less feasible to hold on OR to upgrade since 10 is a piece of NSA shit. hopefully sophie will be able to drag this now grown man into the world of linux.
  2. 2021-03-23 at 9:17 PM UTC
    #42
    Zanick #2 Houston [my concurrently tip-tilted dermestidae]
    I use iOS and MacOS for no reason, but parts of me hate this and I rearrange the icons three times a day with terrible frustration.
  3. 2021-03-23 at 9:19 PM UTC
    #43
    Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
    this is what he does instead of masturbating or going outside
  4. 2021-03-23 at 10:11 PM UTC
    #44
    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Originally posted by Kev windows xp forever baby, well kind of. i had to upgrade to 7 because finding drivers became a pain in the fucking ass and reaching the point of needing to pay a programmer to make the latest hardware work on it, so i dragged my inner child kicking and screaming into our new apartment unit 7.

    now im back to the same situation as before, except this time its less feasible to hold on OR to upgrade since 10 is a piece of NSA shit. hopefully sophie will be able to drag this now grown man into the world of linux.

    I'll drag you into Linux and intimately acquaint you with all it's mysteries and secret places, you need but ask and i will unleash a preponderance of ancient wisdom, so profound and dark that once you grasp it, the Gods themselves will tremble.
  5. 2021-03-24 at 4:04 PM UTC
    #45
    Kev Space Nigga
    Originally posted by Sophie I'll drag you into Linux and intimately acquaint you with all it's mysteries and secret places, you need but ask and i will unleash a preponderance of ancient wisdom, so profound and dark that once you grasp it, the Gods themselves will tremble.

    the gods themselves will tremble? lol, you be drunk fam.

    hopefully you can lift me and my inner child. we are quite the dead weight.
  6. 2021-03-24 at 5:29 PM UTC
    #46
    netstat African Astronaut
    edited for privacy
  7. 2021-03-24 at 5:51 PM UTC
    #47
    Kev Space Nigga
    Originally posted by netstat linux is good if you're not retarded

    i kind of am
    that and i hate having to do everything in a command line and memorize endless commands.
  8. 2021-03-24 at 6:30 PM UTC
    #48
    netstat African Astronaut
    edited for privacy
  9. 2021-03-24 at 6:55 PM UTC
    #49
    Ghost Black Hole
    Originally posted by netstat i don't get when people fawn over winxp, to my memory it was a security deathtrap that would frequently crash and have random and inexplicable bugs

    win7 was a huge security and stability improvement

    works fine for me i use it to play old games
  10. 2021-03-25 at 4:54 AM UTC
    #50
    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Originally posted by Kev the gods themselves will tremble? lol, you be drunk fam.

    hopefully you can lift me and my inner child. we are quite the dead weight.

    The Gods...

    I'm not going to lift dead weight, but i can teach you how to lift yourself.
  11. 2021-04-04 at 4:11 AM UTC
    #51
    kyli0x Yung Blood
    arch is the most stable and easy distro for me to use..
    if you want to use debian i recommend adding multimedia repo and buster backports repo to your apt sources list so its actually up-to-date
  12. 2021-04-04 at 4:28 AM UTC
    #52
    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
    *dumb rehashed thread alert*
  13. 2021-04-18 at 1:16 AM UTC
    #53
    no Yung Blood
    Linux, macOS. If it's unixy it's fine. Windows irritates me, and even though WSL is pretty good at that point I'd rather just use *nix directly.
  14. 2021-04-18 at 2:29 AM UTC
    #54
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I’ve used OSX at every programming job I’ve had and just got used to it, use it for personal stuff too, so it’s definitely what I’m most “comfortable” with in terms of an every day driver. Servers have always been some flavor of linux, I usually go for Debian but honestly you could switch the distro out under me for any of the popular options and as long as it has my vimrc it would be a while before I realized anything had changed.

    Nix looks cool though, it’s the one distro that has enough of a “thing” that I’d spend time trying something new. Linux package management kinda sux in light what modern language package managers can do these days. NPM is a shitshow of the highest caliber but one thing it got right is that “system” libraries are stupid, disk space is cheap as dirt, and any sane person would happily trade some page sharing to be able to have two versions of glibc on the system and the universe not imploding as a result.

    I’m so far behind on Debian updates for NiS I don’t think I have an upgrade path anymore. I think I’m going to take a weekend at some point and ditch Debian and my shitty ssh script for nix and nixops. Try it out in “production” and see if it really delivers what it promises.
  15. 2021-04-19 at 1:57 AM UTC
    #55
    no Yung Blood
    Originally posted by Lanny I’ve used OSX at every programming job I’ve had and just got used to it

    Basically that. Linux desktops are fun if you want to fuck around but if you're working I'd rather just have the OS get out of my way.
  16. 2021-04-19 at 2:50 AM UTC
    #56
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by no Basically that. Linux desktops are fun if you want to fuck around but if you're working I'd rather just have the OS get out of my way.

    learn2tile
  17. 2021-04-19 at 3:40 AM UTC
    #57
    no Yung Blood
    Originally posted by aldra learn2tile

    I should just go slackware style, give me a kernel and I'll write everything myself.

    "Have you merged that PR yet"
    "Not yet, still working on a window server"
  18. 2021-04-19 at 5:30 AM UTC
    #58
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by aldra learn2tile

    I've been using yabai (for OSX) recently and it's pretty good. Admittedly I've never used i3 for long enough for it to really sink into muscle memory, and I won't claim yabai is better (because I don't think I can fairly judge i3), but given the constraints with working with the OSX windowing system it's pretty amazing what's possible. I also really appreciate the approach of "yababi is a binary you call, rig up your own keybinds with skhdrc". The separation of window management and the entrypoints to window management feels very unix-y in an elegant way.
  19. 2021-04-19 at 5:49 AM UTC
    #59
    no Yung Blood
    I should look into that ^ I just use rectangle (previously spectacle), which tied keyboard shortcuts to various window layout / tiling combinations
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