Is that slop? Reads as ‘hey, I have the perspective’ but then reveals they know next to nothing about the systems, just spilling the well-known myths. (About Linux, obviously.) Wasted time on reading this.
Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?
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Re: Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?
#23At this point I just point people to Silverblue or a variant. It's got SELinux, flatpaks, atomic updates and corporate sponsorship. I'm not so wild about Redhat these days, but Silverblue is honestly probably the best from the standpoint of being secure, stable, robust, generally well put-together out of the box, and very difficult for a noob to screw up. I don't love saying this, but it's true.
> and corporate sponsorship That may be a good reason. Corporate oversight is one of the main reasons the other OSs are so terrible at prioritising the user.
I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. If so... I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least (I'm not sure it will be that way forever) by giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides. SELinux by default is a huge plus all by itself.
I love community supported distros, but I've used Linux on desktop and server since around 2000 and I can handle some issues. The proverbial non-tech spouse on the other hand doesn't care that there's a one-line fix to their problem, to them it's just broken and now they want a mac.
Re: Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and corporate sponsorship That may be a good reason. Corporate oversight is one of the main reasons the other OSs are so terrible at prioritising the user.
I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. If so... I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least (I'm not sure it will be that way forever) by giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides. SELinux by default is a huge plus all by itself. I love community supported distros, but I've used Linux on desktop and server since around 2000 and…
> I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason.
Huh, you're right. Maybe I should start dedicating more brain cycles to tasks on the foreground vs everything else going on in the background. :D
> RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least
RHEL was always more work on the server than other distros IMO. Fedora improved after Red Hat let go of it and is currently a very nice and polished distro. It's not for me but it's a fine distro.
Red Hat is now an IBM subsidiary. They seem to be maintaining some of their pre-acquisition ethos but it's probably just a matter of time until they become full-blown "no one ever got fired for buying Red Hat".
Re: Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?
#25Why choose one if you can use all of them? Windows: gaming, running proprietary Windows-only apps (like engineering stuffs) Linux: back end development, kernel hacking macOS: mobile app development Well nowadays I'm stick with macOS not because it's pretty, but because a necessary to do my work as a mobile app dev.
Unless your games require kernel anticheat, there's a decent chance they actually run better on Linux than Windows these days.
Maybe?
But there's also a decent chance a game won't run at all, and when performance is actually a problem, an even better chance that Windows-specific performance optimization tips will be more readily available than Linux-specific tips.
Given that games almost universally have their own immersive user interfaces, and therefore require minimal interaction with the host OS, it's hard for me to justify running Linux on a dedicated gaming PC.