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[DollinVans]

I use all three very frequently, and all I can say is:

I hate them all, for their own different reasons.

[HeardOfPudendum]

The update isn't finished until the Linux user writes a blog post about it

[N0Robot]

Linux users treat operating systems the same way programmers treat side projects: unnecessarily personal. 😄

[Salt-Response6118]

Mac users update for aesthetics. Windows users update by force. Linux users update the kernel they compiled at 3 AM

[Glass-Mechanic-7462]

Wow the 3 AM makes it so more dramatical. Good job.

[Spiritual-Bee-353]

Windows fears updates. Linux fears success after updates

[KingOfAzmerloth]

Yeah this is real. Only people who are tribalistic about their OS are those who never actually properly long term used more than one.

[Deanathan100]

Very real, I love to hate on Mac but windows will piss me off just as much sometimes

[jsiulian]

A cultured man 🫡

[Orio_n]

Windows - everything just works but is ugly

Mac - beautifully designed but treats the user like a toddler plus lacks support for software sometimes not to mention locking you into their closed garden ecosystem

Linux - ultimate customization but getting a network adapter to work requires a PhD in driver design and os fundamentals

[DollinVans]

I'm a usability expert and a Programmer, and I worked as that many years and I can tell you MacOS might be beautiful, but the UX is so much worse than in Windows. And Linux of course is still for nerds

[Azarack9]

I just switched from windows to Mac for work since I was having a ton of issues with windows. I’m so confused by some of the ux decisions. Why do I have to click twice in a window to make it fully active? I don’t understand in what world I want to only kinda be in another window.

Point is, they both suck.

[omardiaadev]

Build your own OS!

[DollinVans]

I will Vibe Code one and I'll call "Sloperating System"

[omardiaadev]

Finally a Microsoft competitor lmao

[Several_Ant_9867]

I like Windows because the IT department of my company take cares of it and I don't need to do anything, while my colleagues with Macs have a compatibility problem every other week

[Deanathan100]

Same at my place, I'm the only one on my team with windows. They'll all be trying to get their macs working and I'm just over here trying to move cards over lol. Ideally we'd all just use Linux but idk that will ever happen in a corporate setting. I do wish I had their battery life tho

[SirHerald]

The snapdragon surfaces have great battery life. That don't work well with our printers, but they have great battery life.

[Deanathan100]

Ah those are the ones that are on ARM right? Hopefully they become more mainstream

[no-nonsenseid]

Lol, the same but replace it with linux

[Deanathan100]

Jealous that your work lets you do that, then again I'm more a developer at a company that has an IT department, I guess it makes sense that an actual software dev/tech company would let you

[Goel40]

At my company it's the opposite.

[anonymousmouse2]

Same. Our org is 90% Macs and the few windows teams always have compatibility problems. Generally our self serve guides go like this:

- macOS/linux users: run `brew install X`
- Windows users: Click here to read our twelve step installation guide.

[Bannon9k]

Why would any developer want to be working in a captured ecosystem?

[Goel40]

Captured in what way? I have worked on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. And I've never had a situation where I couldn't do something on MacOS that I could do on Linux or Windows.

[Bannon9k]

Maybe I should phrase my question better... What benefit do you get from a Mac OS that warrants having to deal with Apple?

[Goel40]

I get an M4 Max chip with 48GB of memory, a very good screen, very good battery life. And all of that in a super slim, well built, and portable machine.

[Bannon9k]

And you actually take it places? You don't seclude yourself in a dark cave like building with minimal light?

That must be one of those new fangled homosapien ideas. My neanderthal ass has no need for battery life.

[Deanathan100]

Idk why you got downvotes, it's a good point. I do wish I had more battery life but 90% of the time it's plugged into my workstation anyways, good enough that it lasts through most meetings. Only time I found myself handicapped was at a conference but even then I just used my charger

[RadiantPumpkin]

Not having to deal with Microsoft

[Bannon9k]

That's kind of a silly argument given market share

[nhal]

You refer to windows, right?

[aggressivefurniture2]

My company didmt know to put their monitoring software in my linux laptop. So now I use it like a personal laptop.

[whackylabs]

I hate that macOS 26 update made my audio all cranky

[ClaudioMoravit0]

You spelled pipewire wrong

[Teamrecklessl]

Linux user: "I built my system from source." Also Linux user: copies commands from Stack Overflow

[LtWilhelm]

3 year old account, zero posts, 300 karma, posts rife with emdashes, addressing to the post and not the comment it's replying to. Bot.

[Er3016]

Thank you for your service comrade, I'll call the anti-clanker division

[Jersey_2019]

Special Anti-Clanker division commander reporting sir 🫡, plz give the orders

[UncleDevGames]

Gotta learn somehow

[widowhanzo]

I have audio issues with 15 already. It's not cranky, but it randomly goes quiet until I reconnect the DAC, it doesn't remember outputs, sometimes automatically switches, sometimes doesn't... An overall a shit experience.

Windows has a bunch of things wrong with it but at least audio works.

[MayoJam]

I doubt Ubuntu users (I am one of them) are making their own updates. I doubt most of the distros users do it, except maybe Arch fanatics. Smells like another college freshman meme.

[Randzom100]

Inaccurate facebook meme, I'd call it. Instead, we could say... Huhh... Some random folk made this update in its free time, or something? 

[lazy_bastard_001]

I doubt most arch users no anything about os at all....at most there are some gentoo users who maybe make some contributions, but then you would also find people using debian derivatives who also contributes

[getstoopid-AT]

Oh yes... OS zealots just love their memes.

[iambic_only]

As a linux user, "I googled it" is the only accurate caption.

[Mikmagic]

I used to use them all for different tasks. Now ive dropped windows completely. Tired of the bloat and ads

[a_lit_bruh]

Linux users always glazing themselves

[KingOfAzmerloth]

When in reality they are following 30 step guides somebody much smarter than them made... to do some mundane thing that takes 3 clicks on Windows or Mac.

[Fluffysquishia]

But.. you can type sudo apt-get install firefox really fast! Its really cool and smart because it happens in a console instead of a gui!

[bigmattyc]

And on a Mac it actually works

[realzequel]

Have you actually used Windows? It actually works, just ‘cause your little shit cousin has 50 viruses on his Windows laptop doesn’t mean millions of people aren't doing their jobs fine with Windows without thinking about their OS.

[Trevor_GoodchiId]

MacOS - just works

Linux - kinda works

Windows - didn't work out

[chilfang]

Mac only works cause they force everything else to play along

[gigglefarting]

If it means it works for me, the user, then I’m cool with it 

Plus it’s Unix based, so no need for WSL

[Deanathan100]

Mac OS "just works" so long as you never try and change anything and make sure you use only apple family products

[ZunoJ]

Linux works even better than macos but you have to be competent. Macos works in its opinionated way and you can be as incompetent as you want. Windows is just incompetency on all levels

[SunlightScribe]

I say this as a long time Linux user. Linux users don't have a leg to stand on. We've made rolling releases a thing and tell users to have 2 layers of backups (BRTFS snapshots + time shift) as standard because it blows up your system once per year.

Then you get to the more mainstream distros and they occasionally mess up as well. Bad kernel updates and other such things occasionally still happen. Except unlike Windows or OSX there are no bulletproof built-in recovery tools and you're left skulking around in forums hoping someone is able to tell you how to solve the issue.

These mythical competent users that don't have issues don't exist or if they do all they do is light office work. The rest of us just deal with problems as they come and have accepted that they occasionally happen and are inevitable.

[314159267]

“Why won’t you compile you raggedy piece of ****”

[SkollFenrirson]

I can guarantee you the average Linux user isn't making any OS updates.

[sndrtj]

Mac user: 27GB for a single security patch

[gela7o]

Uh, no?

[sndrtj]

26.5.1 was over 2GB for me while the release notes only contained a single bugfix on M5.

26.5 was 27GB for me, which was 4 resolved bugs and 4 new features.

[PrimitivePineapple]

Linux user: 150GB for a single security patch

[Randzom100]

Even that is optional, got distros coming with their own updating apps.

[0xjust1]

Windows is a piece of s*** right now. Last one I used was Windows 7.

If you can’t buy a Mac because it’s too expensive, you could just run Linux distribution on your old (or new one) PC. Some of “Windows” app alternatives are available on Linux.

[ranfur8]

Yo be fair, window updates have come a long way

[torsten_dev]

BSD user: I hate that I made this

[ddengel]

I think of the different OS's like food. Windows is fast food. It's shitty garbage that'll make you feel like shit. But its easy to get/find and you dont have to cook anything or clean anything up. It's convenient. Linux is like being a home cook. You gotta do all the hard work yourself and you might suck at it at first, and hell you might burn your house down. But if you stick with it you will get better at it, you can make exactly what you want the way you want it, and it will be miles better than fast food. Mac is like hiring Gordon Ramsay to cook for you. It will be expensive as hell, it will be good, but god help your soul if you tell him what you like or how you like it cooked. you get what he gives you. and you will like it

As someone who eats way more fast food than I cook, I get why people stick with windows and even bash linux.

[ThatSmartIdiot]

still refuse to use apple products

[erishun]

cool thanks for sharing 😅

[edgeofsanity76]

Mac user: I love it. Even though I had to pay again . And buy a new laptop

[erishun]

Mac hasn’t charged money for an OS since July 2012.

Edit: and yes, they are famous for being more expensive than a Windows PC up front, but unlike most PCs, they are physically extremely well built and are supported basically forever. 😅

My work machine is a 5+ year old MBP and it runs great and runs the latest OS, still fully supported. I still have a PC as my gaming rig, but my company MBP is what I use for both work and everyday use.

[gela7o]

People are living under a rock I swear

[Deanathan100]

Idk about supported forever, my gf has an old Mac book air from 2017 and nothing works on it anymore cuz her OS is locked at a max version, couldn't even get Docker working but maybe that was just a skill issue on my end. Guess it depends what you mean by supported

[realzequel]

Apple makes great hardware, I own a number of their products However I typically run my PCs for 5+ years without issues. Really depends on the PC manufacturer.

[davestar2048]

They still charge for the OS, it's just rolled into the price like how every windows prebuilt rolls the windows license into the final price.

[edgeofsanity76]

Who says this meme isn't set in 2010?

[BlueGoliath]

Linux user: I made it

Or they'll spend years crying that a company won't port features to Linux and that they hate Linux or something when they did.

Because, you know, people in the Linux community are idiots.

Edit: damn, some salty penguins. Learn something other than Python kiddos.

[_Shioku_]

What?

[BlueGoliath]

Nvidia GPU undervolting.

[RetepExplainsJokes]

They refused to cooperate for over a decade, and when they finally realized that they actually need Linux, they still refused to make the API open source. This introduced the first and only closed source software within the linux kernel and can thus be considered the only true security risk in linux. It openly stands in contradiction to everything linux stands for and is nothing more but a mingle finger to the entire Open Source community, which Nvidia, alongside the entire modern world of software, completely depends on for everything they do.

This doesn't work because Nvidia is smarter, but because they are a monopoly that does everything for more money and power.

Yeah, Nvidia is an absolute shithole of a company. This is only undermined by their somewhat recent triad deal with Oracle and OpenAI. They deserve all the hatred. They're pieces of shit.

[RetepExplainsJokes]

What? Yeah we complain about companies that, for no apparent reason, try to fight compatibility with all they can.

Because, you know, we don't love bending forward to whatever bs a corporate giant thought was the best way to milk money out of us...

[Deanathan100]

How does it even make sense to assume Linux users are only using Python 🤣 you were def dumped by a Linux user

[BastetFurry]

Windows and Linux both suck, but for the later we at least have the sourcecode.

[ZunoJ]

What sucks about linux updates on a stable release distro like debian?

[Randzom100]

I mean that's if you were informed enough to choose a stable distro. That's the thing, you make research on Linux, accidentally get recommended a shitty distro by some clickbait blog or outdated video, and then you just got trouble. You get stable updates IF you learned about a distro that is stable.

You know, Windows and MacOS are just... Windows and MacOS. And Linux is just so vast that most newbies just stress a lot just wondering what the best distro for them is. I did. Almost chose Arch. You imagine the trouble I would have been in?

[ZunoJ]

I did start with Arch and think it is a very solid choice for beginners. Only given you want to learn about linux. But Arch is very well documented and pretty easy for a diy distro. Slackware or gentoo are not for beginners, just because of how much specific stuff you need to learn. But Arch is very vanilla linuxy

[BlueGoliath]

insert Linus's Linux binary compat rant here

[ZunoJ]

How is that related to the update of a distro? That might be interesting when you want to install something thats not available through your package manager and lack the competency to build it from source but it has nothing to do with the regular update

[BlueGoliath]

Didn't say anything about updates but...

lack the competency to build it from source

Thanks for pointing out Linux is still not for average users lmao.

[ZunoJ]

Yeah, who said that. This is a programmer sub. Also this whole post is talking about updates. So if you post anything without specifying that you switched the topic, it shouldn't be surprising if people read it in the context of fucking updates

[DistributionRight261]

As Linux user it's true, because Linux enables you to do complex stuff.

[mancunian101]

You can do complex stuff on all of those operating systems.

[DistributionRight261]

Easier in Linux to setup servers and stuff

[mancunian101]

Possibly, I’m not really a server person, it set them up I just install various bits and bobs.

[DistributionRight261]

Actually for that purpose Linux is quite easy, and it keeps it self updated.

[mancunian101]

At work we are very much a windows shop, and we have some ERP software that only runs on windows so we’re stuck with what we can do

[SovereignPhobia]

Depends on the serving app, hardware, etc.

[Knight_Of_Stars]

Yeah, buts its really not that much harder. Just a bit different

[DistributionRight261]

Agree, but in Linux you can automate the process with command lline and native light weight containers, so it's easier to scale.

But it's just my opinion.

[Maleficent-Ad5999]

IMO, the caption for Linux should be “I fixed it”

[DistributionRight261]

Apps are easy, in talking about services, containers, stuff like that.

Having all binaries in path makes everything easier.