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What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Unix in one form or another since the mid 80s, so that's pretty deeply ingrained by now.

I was strongly biased towards Solaris & OpenBSD for many years (Solaris on nice Sun hardware, OpenBSD on small machines) but both began to annoy me a little bit recently, so I switched to Void linux. (Also, there was ONE feature of Linux that I REALLY wanted - extended attributes (name=val) in the filesystem. Love those.)

I'm fascinated by Multics & Control Data's NOS (70s mainframe OS's), but that's for historic study, not actual use.

[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CDE had the advantage of being useful with a default config, at a time when most window managers required HUGE amounts of fiddling to get a nice environment.

[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like €7.50, lol

IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about €50, which was a lot of money back then!

Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.