Subj : Computer operating system of choice?
To   : boraxman
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 10:01:51

 b> Probably a banal question, but I'm curious as to what Operating
 b> Systems people prefer to us.

 b> I'm guessing that most people here are BBS hobbyists of sometime, but
 b> I wonder whether this correlates with a preference for an OS which
 b> gives you more power/flexibility, or is just practicality of day to
 b> day use important. 

 b> I'm a Linux user myself, preferring control over my machine, and
 b> simpler 'text based' ways to do things.  Freedom is another aspect. 
 b> The simple text-based, responsive UI nature of posting here on fsxNet
 b> kind of fits well with the way I like to do things.

 b> I'm kind of thinking that people who like the Windows/Mac OS way of
 b> doing things would prefer a more graphical approach, but my
 b> assumptions may be wrong. 

I use MacOS because I like it when shit works.  I don't like Windows, and I really like Linux but when using Linux as a desktop operating system it's the little things that matter and here I still feel that Linux can't really compete with MacOS. It's like making sure copy-paste actually work everywhere, having software and software distribution that actually works. As of now, we have several ways of installing software, tons of different distributions, several graphical user interfaces (Gnome, KDE, etc) which is a force to be reckoned with but also present a lot of problems for the end users. 

Let's say I install Fedora (my personal distro of choice), and then I want to install Skype. This is not in the software center application until I install some other repo (Flatpack, for example). Why isn't that enabled from the start? 

Maybe Linux would benifit from a package installer like ones available on MacOS and Windows - download a file and click on it to install it. 

I spend a lot of time in the terminal, logged into several Linux servers where I'm a sysadmin ($dayjob) and I like to do it via MacOS where I have a Unix foundation, a great and beautiful UI and great apps. 


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