Subj : Computer operating system of choice?
To   : boraxman
From : Oli
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 11:12:15

boraxman wrote (2022-02-07):

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

They are all kind of frustrating when I think about it. Windows is annoying as hell. MacOS depends on Apple hardware (I used my PC as a Hackintosh, but I guess it's too old now for a recent MacOS). In Linux there are too many distributions (with their own incomplete or partially outdated repositories). Ubuntu was great and went to shit. Gnome was great and is now pissing on every desktop environments that use GTK as a foundation and doesn't want to be Gnome 4. The stuff that makes your Linux booting and running is getting more and more bloated, more complicated and featureful and is forever changing, just because they can ... I haven't tried one of the BSDs on the desktop.

Other alternative OSes (old or new) are missing important software, like a decent browser. Maybe decent is the wrong word. I mean a browser that can cope with the shitty web of the 2020s. And hardware support is also often a problem.

Let's wait another 20 years until HaikuOS will be released or Plan 9 usable or OS/2 open sourced an revived or ...

..... everything rewritten in the language that wants to replace Rust for even more bloat.

So my preferred OS would be something like a MacOS 8/9 (with a better kernel and less crashing), BeOS, Windows 2000 (with uncluttered and nicer configuration and administration) or a modern OS/2 2.x.

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