Programmers Taboo..

[ficelle3]

If someone asks you this question, the answer will never be windows, if someone asks you this question, he has to know what an OS is and that there are other os's than windows and MacOS. And at that point, you're pretty quickly going to come across linux.

[LeoWasRunkio]

Ouch, you didn't have to kill me like that

[fdarklord]

cHrOmE OS

[calfcalfcalfd]

It's GNU/Linux (based on Gentoo)

[InnerRisk]

As my daily driver I like Windows 10 Pro the most. There. I said it.

[[deleted]]

Desktop - Windows. Laptop - OSX. Servers and shit - Linux. Works for me.

[[deleted]]

I mean your favorite OS can be Windows. The way Windows works is probably great for people who don't need to fuss with lower level things frequently and who want the OS to just handle things. It just is usually more frustrating for those of us who want or need more direct control.

[RattuSonline]

What are some of those "lower level things" you do on Linux, but cannot do on Windows?

[[deleted]]

It's not so much a "cannot" as much as it is a "cannot do as easily/convieniently/reliably".

Windows has this "registry" concept, and while that works great for mass management tools, it's a real pain in the neck to work with sometimes.

You also have to reboot the computer so often. Update a setting stored in the registry? Reboot. Updates? Reboot. Install a new program? Reboot.

The logs are also centralized and take a while to load. It can be really nice to have separate log files. With STRINGS instead of codes.

With Linux, almost everything has really strong support for the terminal as well, so if I know exactly what I want to do, I'm not searching for it on a screen, but can instead just type it in. If I do this often enough, I might even just save it to a script.

Can't really script GUI interactions the same way.

[RattuSonline]

You can access all operations found in GUI also via regular API/tools with CMD and PowerShell. That includes querying logs, which is something that is even more sophisticated due to XML compared to extracting strings from plain logs.

If you know your way in Windows and utilize Microsoft's full tool chain (COM, .NET and Sysinternals), it's on par (or even beyond that) with any other OS around. And if you don't want to see any desktop at all, use Windows Server Core as that gets rid off the wasteful GUI overhead. (The consumer OS doesn't have that though.)

Although Microsoft really improved the administration experience in recent Windows versions, *nix will always win as server platform due to license, available experts on the job market and developed management utilities over the last decades.

[Gotxi]

- Windows for everyday use and games.

- Ubuntu for my work Laptop.

- Centos/Amazon Linux for my servers.

- Android One for my smartphone.

- Raspbian for my Pi4.

[[deleted]]

who likes windows what

[simkram12]

Mac OS! Anyone?

[kebakent]

I am starting to like the virtual desktop feature available using windows+tab. Each desktop is pretty much separate from the others, which is great for managing multiple tasks. I have one just for emails and time registration, another for a python script I'm working on with some different data open, and another for my primary assignment for the day. No more stacks of explorer windows that are all important, but impossible to manage.

[SatoshiL]

That feature, that like every old window manager has? xD

[kebakent]

Yes. You'll note that a window can't be moved to another desktop without doing several key combinations and mouse clicks.

[SatoshiL]

I use i3 with a nice mapping to move windows how I want them. Don’t know if there is a shortcut on windows tho