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MacOS is worlds better than Windows, it's not even close.
Hell, Mac OS is even a certified UNIX operating system, something that even Linux (or GNU+Linux) can't say.
It's still a non-FOSS OS which is the real reason it sucks, but it's a lot better than a lot of people seem to think. Whereas Windows just plain sucks on a usability level too, not just the licensing.
I read a deep dive into the macos "certified UNIX" thing and it's a scam. I dont remember the details but the certification is obtained only through a set of testing exceptions. The macos used by people is not the macos that is Unix certified.
As a former macos user (2013-2024ish), macos has become IMO a very user hostile experience. It's not quite as bad as windows, but macos is not the "user friendly, it (mostly) just works and gets out of your way" os it used to be.
I'm full time Linux now and when I have to use macos or windows I cannot believe how user hostile they both are.
Linux is far from perfect, but at least I control my system/os.
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Kali Linux as Chad OS suggests this list is as much meme as truth so I wouldn’t worry about the rankings.
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Arch should be in its own tier: BTW
Yeah: the self-own tier
Sorry, I declare NixOS being in its own tier, actually.
Lol Gentoo over here in two categories
Scitzo-chad gentoo
Guys, MacOS isn’t everybody’s taste, especially now. But it does do what it’s trying to do. Windows isn’t succeeding at anything it’s trying to do.
Vibecode will do that to you.
I don’t understand the hate for MacOS or Ubuntu frankly. Windows was fine until they stopped making “features” opt in. Fedora has been toying with adding AI, and my experiences with Arch have been subpar for my needs. I’m kinda at the point in my life where I don’t care as long as the OS works. They’re all so similar at the end of the day, they help me do the websites, work tools and vidya gaems.
Charts without Solus is kinda like Maps without New Zealand.
But, Australia and new zealand is a myth, right? RIGHT?
So i've since moved to Arch (btw), but what's wrong with Manjaro? I never had an issue with it, but I have seen quite a few people dunking on it... just without any explanation.
I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with it. In my opinion, the only downside to Manjaro is when you activate the aur repository, as doing so can cause dependency conflicts because this repository is designed for Arch and not for Manjaro and its version timeline.
There are some very vocal people against it but I've never understood why. It makes no sense to put it in the same basket as Ubuntu.
Kali linux in Chad tier says it all
Is that GNU at the bottom? If so, bro, this dude don't get it.
Have you tried to actually use GNU/Hurd?
Yeah, that's why it belongs next to Arch
Arch is high skill floor high skill ceiling. Once you get good you can do really cool things with it. GNU/Herd is high skill floor low skill ceiling. If you're really good and practice really hard, eventually you'll be able to do things that could have been easier achieved with literally anything else.
But then that is not the logo of Hurd, and Hurd is not the point of GNU
It's kinda part of the original point... to make a complete free software operating system...
Still, was nice that the Linux kernel came along to make things easier than the more advanced approach Hurd was taking.
Linux Libre + GNU, and got the point of GNU none the less. :)
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After I realized Ubuntu and Mint (the two distros I used the most) are both based on Debian, I switched to Debian with KDE Plasma. I don't know why I never tried it before and I'm never going back.
The reason you've never tried it before is probably that they only recently made an effort to make it palatable for the average nerd. It always had a bit of a reputation of being not easy to work with.
It's been fine for the average nerd for a couple decades. The installer has been mostly unchanged since 2005 or so, and I don't see much difference in an installed system either. I think you can live boot it ahead of installation now, maybe that's a big deal to some people?
I'm glad they did, I like it since I was already used to the Debian way of doing things.
Yup that was me a few years ago. Its no longer the mid 2000s and stock debian can do pretty much anything right out the gate.
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Peak Script-Kiddie Shit.
/r/masterhacker laugh at you too much, op?
I hope Windows 11 becomes microsofts death (and ofc the fact that their previous ceo liked to fuck children)
don't say manjaro could be better.
- it works.... most of the time until it doesn't
- it looks nice .... until you update something and it breaks
- it has many features... which you don't need by default
- it can be customized easily.... if you just want basics
- it is stable.... until you update something
but i love it and use it daily
The distributions within the openSUSE project are, in my opinion, the most advanced and complete Linux distributions. They offer tools such as btrfs+snapper, openQA, Secure-boot, Firewall, Yast (Myrlyn+Agama), etc. as soon as the system is installed. No other Linux distribution offers all of this configured immediately after installing the system. In my opinion, the openSUSE project is at the highest level of Linux, offering solutions for most users, fixed distributions such as Leap, rolling distributions such as Tumbleweed, immutable distributions such as Kalpa, etc.
Would Tails go in cool and good or schizo?
ChromeOS is definitely better than windows, you can run all your normal Linux things just with a slightly annoying desktop environment
"Yeah, I'm a normie, at least as far as Linux enthusiasts are concerned."
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