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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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MacOS. I ditched windows back in 2011 and will never go back. I used MacOS as my desktop OS from 2014 to 2022, so I'd probably go back to that if I wasn't using Linux.
The only distro I find worth using is Gentoo, so FreeBSD might work, but ports is nowhere near as pleasant to use as portage last I tried (a decade ago).