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Krishna Agarwal
Krishna Agarwal

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Are you a Mac, Windows or Linux user?

Are you a Mac, Windows or Linux user?
Me: Windows

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José Aponte •

Windows user. I switched from Linux 2 years ago. Although linux is more power/recourses efficient, I was tired of dealing with compatibility issues on my everyday tools. I'm also a gamer, so I also got tired of using proton/wine/PlayOnLinux tools for games that can run effortlessly on Windows.

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Patrick Wendo •

Have you considered getting a steamDeck? i also had to dual boot my machine cause I want to play games. I wanted to get the steam deck but I can't get one in my country and as far as I know, it is not available till Q3. But SteamDeck is a linux machine that runs steam games pretty well.

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José Aponte •

Yes! I've seen/read a lot of reviews about the SteamDeck and it looks promising. As you said, the SteamDeck is a Linux machine which uses ProtonDB (a Steam/Valve tool which allow Steam to play native Windows games on other platforms). There are some compatibility issues with some games that requires Anti-Cheat software, but Valve says that the new updates will solve a lot of these issues. I might buy it at the end of year!

P.D: I will still use Windows for daily run!

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Patrick Wendo •

Linux.
Simply because it was the cheapest option when I was starting out. I wanted to buy a new laptop that I really had my eye on. But I only had about $400 on me. The laptop was $500 but it came with windows installed. I asked the vendor if they would drop the price if they could not include the windows CD with it.

I got the laptop, went home and spent days figuring out how to install ubuntu on it.

7 years later, here I am running 3 different distros on my machines cause it's fun. Also cause the problems I face with linux are also uniquely mine. If something isn't running, it's probably because I messed up a configuration somewhere. It holds me accountable for my messes and frankly it is a great, albeit sometimes irritating, way to learn how to fix issues.

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tonievalue •

Mac user.
It was tough descission, because it was new experience. For most of my life Windows was my primary OS, with some swaps to various Linux distros. Now i can freely say, that for me Mac is the most comfortable OS to work with.

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Siddhartha Sarkar •

Windows user switched to Linux and never going back!

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Eljay-Adobe •

All three. Mostly Mac for general use & games & development (Xcode & Visual Studio & PyCharm), but also Windows for development (Visual Studio), and Linux on Raspberry Pi for fun.

In ancient days, also Amiga OS, GS/OS, ProDOS, AppleDOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, DEC VMS, and various Un*x (DEC Alpha Tru64, Sun Solaris, Minix, System V, FreeBSD, MS-Xenix before it was SCO-Xenix).

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VeskoPL •

Cook > Gates

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SaKKo •

Windows for games
Mac for most work
Linux for some work

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Pau Riosa •

Mac

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pbl.gllgs •

Windows and wsl

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Kirill Shestakov •

Mac 👌 at work, Linux ❤ at home