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Discussion on: Why Do Developers Prefer Linux?

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Jan Vlnas • Edited

After 4 years on a company issued MacBook I was happy to return to Linux as my daily driver for one simple reason: I am in control.

I feel like both major OSs are being dumbed and locked down, taking heavy inspiration from iOS and Android. At least Windows keeps some user's agency, mostly for legacy reasons, and WSL with new terminal make it a decent working environment. But macOS, with its constant "call home" due to app notarization and other anti-user "features" insults me.

Also, window management both on Windows and macOS is inferior compared to most Linux desktop environments.

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Joseph Mania • Edited

Working with hp, i heard macOS are cool, but from your knowledge it seems Linux is better than all of them

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Jan Vlnas

It is cool alright, for some definitions of cool. 😉