Because they are the only mature and widely supported options that won't get your ass busted every time you try something and find out it's not supported. I've had my share of exotic OSes and frankly nothing beats Linux in terms of comfort... (And I've got other battles to fight that are far more interesting)
For any secondary laptop-type machine I'd expand to Google's offerings etc. but I'm not even aware of anything outside Mac/Linux/Windows ecosystems in terms of something I'd reasonably work with. I've heard of things like Redox, but hadn't considered alternatives. Now that you mention it, I kind of want to.
Secretly I would love to build a DEV-OS, which would basically be a developer-centric OS that natively hooks into your DEV profile for interacting more richly with this community. But that's another discussion altogether.
Do you have any OS suggestions I might want to check out?
I started to use fedora this week, and i`m enjoying it so far! I was using Debian based (ubuntu), but i felt that fedora is better to install new programs and the user interface is better than ubuntu
I would actually disagree with the 'default interface' statement, at least in the case of both Fedora AND Ubuntu. With Fedora, you can get into depth and customize it, but if you wanted, say KDE, you would normally use the KDE dedicated spin. Same for Ubuntu, which also defaults to non KDE. For that, you would use Kubuntu. It's not always as 'simple' as 'just choose the ui you want' because many different changes have been made that you wind up with packages you dont need, may have conflicts, etc.
While I'm happy to try various systems whenever I can, I agree with you that Redox is not complete enough just yet.
Being a developer, I can recommend Solaris (OpenIndiana or Tribblix) and BSD (FreeBSD or OpenBSD) though. Especially OpenBSD is a very fine desktop OS in my experience.
try HaikuOS (slightly Joking) it's ancestor BeOS was hands-down the best OS of it's time. I was gutted when Be Inc failed. It was clean, fast, had lots of software and a really healthy community. I'm gutted my C++ is not good enough to have written anything amazing for it.
Downsides are FF and Chrome support, virtualisation, probably a heap of non-core development environments and tools.
Why would you want to limit yourself to these three?
Because they are the only mature and widely supported options that won't get your ass busted every time you try something and find out it's not supported. I've had my share of exotic OSes and frankly nothing beats Linux in terms of comfort... (And I've got other battles to fight that are far more interesting)
I'm happy to hear other suggestions 😄
For any secondary laptop-type machine I'd expand to Google's offerings etc. but I'm not even aware of anything outside Mac/Linux/Windows ecosystems in terms of something I'd reasonably work with. I've heard of things like Redox, but hadn't considered alternatives. Now that you mention it, I kind of want to.
Secretly I would love to build a DEV-OS, which would basically be a developer-centric OS that natively hooks into your DEV profile for interacting more richly with this community. But that's another discussion altogether.
Do you have any OS suggestions I might want to check out?
I would love this, mannn.. let's get started! DEV os!
I started to use fedora this week, and i`m enjoying it so far! I was using Debian based (ubuntu), but i felt that fedora is better to install new programs and the user interface is better than ubuntu
Are you aware that the user interface is independent of your distribution?
I mean default user interface. My mistake!
Edited: in this case just about information Gnome 3
You can set the default user interface during the installation process. :)
I didn't know about that! Thanks about information!
The default for my was gnome 3!
Great observation man. Thanks!
I would actually disagree with the 'default interface' statement, at least in the case of both Fedora AND Ubuntu. With Fedora, you can get into depth and customize it, but if you wanted, say KDE, you would normally use the KDE dedicated spin. Same for Ubuntu, which also defaults to non KDE. For that, you would use Kubuntu. It's not always as 'simple' as 'just choose the ui you want' because many different changes have been made that you wind up with packages you dont need, may have conflicts, etc.
While I'm happy to try various systems whenever I can, I agree with you that Redox is not complete enough just yet.
Being a developer, I can recommend Solaris (OpenIndiana or Tribblix) and BSD (FreeBSD or OpenBSD) though. Especially OpenBSD is a very fine desktop OS in my experience.
try HaikuOS (slightly Joking) it's ancestor BeOS was hands-down the best OS of it's time. I was gutted when Be Inc failed. It was clean, fast, had lots of software and a really healthy community. I'm gutted my C++ is not good enough to have written anything amazing for it.
Downsides are FF and Chrome support, virtualisation, probably a heap of non-core development environments and tools.
Haiku is nice, actually. :)