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Yeah, I wish there was another operating system. Mac is tied to expensive hardware and I just can't get myself to like the overall UX of Linux

• Sir_Substance 10y ago
  >I just can't get myself to like the overall UX of Linux There's at least four mainstream UX's to choose from and a few dozen small ones if you feel adventuresome. What desktops have you tried?
  • tdb7893 10y ago
    It's not as much the look of the desktop as it is a bunch of little things about the OS. The command line stuff is nice but not useful unless I'm programming, I've found lots of stuff concerning configuration to be a little obtuse (knowing what's what in a configuration file takes some time), worrying about drivers isn't fun, and many common programs aren't on Linux and if they have an alternative it often isn't as good. Those are just a few reasons off the top of my head so don't take them as exhaustive or as authoritative but just a random opinion. I use Linux for programming and it's nice but for day to day use it suffers some problems for me (largely because of low adoption of the general desktop market I think).
    • type0 10y ago
      > many common programs aren't on Linux and if they have an alternative it often isn't as good. What programs is that? In my experience, unless you are using a bunch of specialized proprietary apps on Windows almost everything open source is on Linux and is better implemented.