What OS should I drive?
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What OS should I drive?
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Re: What OS should I drive?
#2> One with tools more powerful, elegant, and accessible: Linux.
This didn't seem to fit with the rest of the article up to this point. It was all about doing your own thing and what works best for you. Linux being the most powerful, elegant, and accessible is _highly_ dependent on the user and what they are actually trying to do on their computer.
There was also a warning to Arch users not to spend too much time customizing, because it's all about productivity, but ends on recommending the user spend time distro hopping before picking something... right after saying the distro didn't matter that much.
I was very much on board until it took this left turn at the end.
Re: What OS should I drive?
#3> One with tools more powerful, elegant, and accessible: Linux. This didn't seem to fit with the rest of the article up to this point. It was all about doing your own thing and what works best for you. Linux being the most powerful, elegant, and accessible is _highly_ dependent on the user and what they are actually trying to do on their computer. There was also a warning to Arch users not to spend too much time cust…
Daily driving and distro hopping, kind of like the dilemma of monogamy and polygamy :)
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#4this really does not belong on the front page of hn
> One with tools more powerful, elegant, and accessible: Linux.
triple ha
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#5Mac, with vms for the rest.
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#6Feel like giving Haiku another shot
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#7>Now let’s say you’re truly indifferent, then--
--then use the one with the most market share, which is Windows.
The truly indifferent person is not writing articles like this, and they are definitely not posting on Hacker News. In fact, even many non-indifferent people, who nevertheless don't pass a critical threshold of interest, should probably just stick with the defaults.
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#8Mac, with vms for the rest.
> with vms for the rest.
It's called OpenVMS since quite some decades now.
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#9> on Windows because you feel so professional
Pretty funny that this is the first reason the author could think of that someone would choose Windows.
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#10In short, the article offers: "Which of the three is best? The one you like most. If you like good things, then it's Linux." It is neither wise, nor critical, nor useful.
I don't know how people-pleasing passes as having something to say these days. You can answer any dilemma and every question in life with "the right answer is the one you like". Which completely misses the context of what the dilemma is or why it is.
"Which car should I buy: an indestructible economy box, or a $$$$ luxury lifestyle machine?" "Just buy the one you like".
"And which house?" "The one you like!".
"And what securities should I invest in?" "The ones you like!".
"Exercise or eat a bucket ice cream" "The one you like most!"
Truly an all-purpose advice, always guaranteed to please the one receiving it and do nothing more.