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Hi. I am using macOS. so, what UNIX like OS are you using?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My work machine is macOS as the company won't let us use Linux. My home machine is Arch Linux (obligatory "BTW") which I migrated to after Ubuntu dropped Unity and started forcing Snaps on everyone.

However, a nice shameless plug for my Terminal file manager: DF-SHOW which is designed to work on all Unix like systems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same exact story for me (mac and manjaro (btw)). Nice project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this advertisement is ok, I'll check it and see if I can use it with tdsr. if not, I'll report back with issues that I found.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint Xfce here - just right for me - not too splashy, not too hard core :-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I want to like macOS but Apple, IMO, is doing scummier and scummier things with it. For instance, I haven't signed in to iCloud. Once a day it seems, I'll get a little notice telling me that not all functionality will work until I've signed in. Ok.. So I click the little 'X' on the notification. It opens the settings to the iCloud setup screen. That's not what 'X' is supposed to do!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux Mint has always been my recommended for beginners to Linux and if I just want something stable and quick to set up.

Arch (usually EndeavourOS) when I want to do fun stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use NixOS on my pc, laptop, and server, although I dual-boot windows on my pc to play some games.

My phone is android, I have a pinephone but I can't get discord and other things to work well on it so it can't be my daily driver right now. (I know Matrix chat is better than discord, I even host my own instance, but everyone in my school uses discord so there's no way to switch).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Arch. I got it working 3 years ago, it's still working, stable. On my main laptop, though, I'm running windows, and planning to install Fedora when I get the chance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch for my main, Debian for my servers and family. I bounced around for a while over the years. At some point in the past I decided I didn't want to use derivatives and these two fit my needs prefectly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Fedora for a while now. I love it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Run Arch on my main PC. Proxmox on my home server with Ubuntu server as VM and random containers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fedora.

I've also been getting more familiar with CoreOS / SilverBlue recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gentoo Linux here. I used Kubuntu for the longest time, but once they started forcing snapd down my throat, I jumped ship.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Arch. I kinda hate it but love it too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was using Pop!_OS for a long time, but finally switched to Fedora and I love it because it feels so up to date.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Qubes OS on my laptop, HardenedBSD on my desktop and OpenBSD on my server. I use both BSD and Linux depends on the use case. For the phone, I prefer GrapheneOS all the way!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My progression was: Mandrake, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, NixOS. At work I use Nix flakes on Debian machines, so one month back I figured out I could install NixOS at home to get familiar with Nix. NixOS is really something different and it brings me back to the old times when Linux was new for me. It’s again an adventure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Slackware. Though I can make most things work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Void Linux is home. Plus, as soon as word got out that Windows 11 had those insane system requirements and the TPM stuff I decided I would abandon Winblows for good once 10 reaches end of life.

[–] jcb2016 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using macOS also but I'm a arch/Debian guy. i know both of them. I'm not an expert but before macOS i was using Linux. I came to macOS cause of school just wanted something solid. I still help people though if I can with Linux problem when I can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

my debian vm box is solid too, installed it yesterday, only audio issues with muting, for some idiotic reason, but I made a simple modification to the system, high hopes it will help with this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gentoo when I want to do Linux at an enthusiast level and out of technical interest, and PopOS when I just want everything to work.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Arch Linux. Once you get past the intimidating reputation it's really nice, and the documentation is best in class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Due to computer games, my desktop PC runs Windows 11, but my dissatisfaction with Windows is growing. I use MacOS on my MacBook Pro because it works so nicely with my other Apple devices, but I need a change every now and then and try new things, so I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a relatively old laptop and it's a great pleasure to work on it. So at the moment I would say that Linux Mint Cinnamon is my favourite operating system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hate cinnamon, but everyone has different tastes: I when I use linux, if I need to have gui installed mate, or else system will go rm -rf / I saw gnome, desktop doesn't work with orca, menu start stopped working after some updates, so mate all the way, I tried kde, but i gave up on it, it just didn't clicked out, desktop was not accessible, menu start too. everything is bork. mate is not, for some reason, so I have it on my debian vm on utm. I'm forced to use debian, as I can't find fedora mate arm64, or fedora with old gnome 40.0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It used to be MacOS, but I jumped ship as soon as iOS stuff started creeping in years ago. Because I had already jumped ship from iPhones for the exact same stuff. Arch is my *nix of choice these days, or Linux Mint if I'm recommending it to someone else who doesn't want to learn Arch.

But with that said, my daily driver is a Windows machine these days. I'm getting lazy as I get older, so (relatively) effortless compatibility is king.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kubuntu. I like KDE and been using Ubuntu-like OSs since 2007.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch because my installs keep working, and I'm really used to it at this point. In the future I'd be interested in trying something like NixOS/Guix, Silverblue, or Qubes.

The mobile landscape is just a privacy clusterfuck. I flip flop back and forth between Android and iOS a lot. Maybe one day I'll take the Graphene plunge, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Spiral Linux, I wanted something close to just Debian that was fast and ran xfce so that's what I went with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ok, net BSD probably for server stuff: void linux sounds so evil. lol. btw let's discuss why we are using the systems we use I'm using macOS, because apple's ecosystem, and voiceover is more reliable than orca on linux, and all bsd's don't have a screenreader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Arch Linux. It's too convenient. The AUR hosts a massive amount of packages, wiki is super detailed and covers solutions for all sorts of edge cases. Needs a bit of tinkering to get started but once things are set up it's very stable, and still gives you a lot of freedom to tinker with your system however you want. The only other option I've considered is NixOS which has some pretty interesting features

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Slackware - it’s very utilitarian for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been a linux user since 1996. I've used a lot of distros over the years slackware/gentoo/debian/arch/redhat/ubuntu.These days I've been running Fedora and find it pretty great. I've gotten a bit too lazy for distros like Arch and prefer something that just works without too much tinkering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The new Arch Installer makes it pretty darn streamlined. If you can get your box onto the internet, it'll work almost like any other installer. Just all text based.

Fedora/Ubuntu is what I tell casual users to use though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always just used ubuntu with i3 because I honestly dont really know what I am potentially missing out on. What is a reason to use something else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer Debian since Ubuntu is basically just a more bloated version of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh okay so it is like a performance thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it's that there are fewer moving parts that can break.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh alright, that makes sense! thanks

[–] Ravan 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use derived OS. Either Debian or Arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have used several other distros on and off, but I feel Pop!_OS is the macOS of Linux. Long time macOS user turned macOS(client)+Ubuntu(server) user by profession, turned Pop!_OS(client)+RHEL8(server) user (new job! Loving it).

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