I do design, art, sound and development (web applications and games). So the OS X is the choice. It has *nix environment combined with natively working Adobe Creative Suite apps and a lot of platform exclusive graphic and sound editors.
Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?
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Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?
#42I am using OS X because of the built in terminal and Retina display and until recently I was using Windows. I don't see how Mac is better.
There is no such thing as the best OS there is only one that suits your needs. Anyone who says Win or Mac or Linux sucks are just dumb.
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#43It depends a lot on what you do for work, I bet. I'm in sort of a similar situation as you--Windows at work, Linux at home, but I also have a mac. I run a pretty bare-bones setup on my Linux desktop (#!: an OS for those who got frustrated trying to learn Arch and still like APT). The lack of extra stuff makes me less prone to messing around, so it's great as a GSD system and when I want to dedicate my CPU and memory…
> If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX. People choose OS X because of its design though, not because of its aesthetics. "You can't put lipstick on a pig" and all that. The trouble with Linux is that there's no consistency in UIs between various apps, and skinning just makes things even less consistent. I'm in your scientif…
In all seriousness, if it's just an occasional missing package, consider adding it to Homebrew. It's a relatively painless process and adds a tool to everyone's working palette. This is a mitzvah.
If that was a polite way of saying "many missing packages", that's a different story.
Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?
#44Been using Slackware for the last years. It started out as a learning experience and I haven't had any reason to switch yet. I've gotten the games to work mostly on wine and on the off chance I'm dual booting with windows on the laptop purely for games.
I highly recommend using a tiling window manager (I'm happy with xmonad). No more resizing windows with the mouse, things simply work. That I'm on a dual monitor setup is a big plus for that as well.
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#45Just made the jump to Linux. I'm using Pear OS, a Ubuntu-based Linux distro that's a decent clone of OSX.
Linux finally getting unofficial Netflix support was the last thing holding me back. I have three iPhones, two iPads, and an Apple TV but Macs are too expensive, especially when you already own a PC.
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#46Linux user here. Aside from being free and running on just about anything, the fact that you're familiar with Linux means you're likely to end up frustrated with UI shortcomings or (intentional) system limitations that you can't get around (by design) in OS X.
Of course, if you just happen to love everything Apple has baked inextricably into their OS... then awesome, and you'll certainly be happy! For the rest of us, though, the flexible, stable, useful devil we know is likely a better choice.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better yet, why Windows?
I don't like Apple's direction with OS X ML. Windows for gaming and GNU/Linux for dev work. I also personally think Windows is snappier than OS X.
I was really pleasantly surprised when I ugpraded to Windows 7. With enough ram, it is very responsive and a fairly pleasing experience.
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#48I use OSX with a Windows & Linux VM on standby for anything that I can't easily do on OSX natively. I don't have to use them very often but I like having options. Occasionally I need a Windows-only app or need a bleeding edge release of some package that won't build easily on OSX. I used Linux as a desktop OS for about 6 years before switching to OSX and I have no desire to go back. The amount of time I wasted just trying to get things working properly was not worth it and OSX (Windows also) just have much better desktop software available.
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#49I am a lifelong Mac OS user (started with System 6), and currently use OSX on a MacBook Air, but my next purchase will be a non-ultrabook form-factor generic PC, possibly a ThinkPad, running Arch Linux.
:3 that's going to be a lot of fun to set up. Enjoy that!