UNBIASED EXPERIENCE THREAD WINDOWS - Windows 10 is my desktop

>>58645300
Windows 10 has already killed off many devices with updates though. With the anniversery update people who used Bitlocker for example couldn't decrypt their machines anymore.

>>58645337
That is true I had exhausted all of my knowledge as to what was going on with my pc because I'd never heard of an OS just corrupting itself out of nowhere so I went to office max and when I asked about windows 10 even he admitted it was too intrusive and how bad the anniversary update was. My grandmother actually had her pc update from windows 7 to 10 without her saying yes. When older people don't understand computers and they more use muscle memory "click this icon and it will take me to Facebook" it messed a lot of shit up for her she still talks about how she likes "the old computer thing" better.

>>58645300
Windows 10 is honestly an unpolished, resource hungry, uncustomizable and unstable OS. I'd regret if I actually had to pay for it but god bless pirates.

I dualboot with Ubuntu GNOME and I am more comfortable in my Ubuntu to be quite frank.

Ok then

>Windows
I've used this OS since 98SE. I was used to it because I didn't know any better and, of course, I played games. I knew about mac OS and all, but being expensive and all put me the hell away from it. Over the years I've seen nothing but a rebranded Windows Vista, with a different theme, maybe some more features but not fixing issues that have been there for so long that it's killing me.

Like font rendering. It hasn't been fixed for long. The current look of Windows 10 is also just an eyesore. I'm not as motivated to do anything on it. What I admit though is that my desktop just "werks" with Windows, if I need to retask jacks I don't have to use anything but the sound panel, if I have to tweak something about my GPU I have a panel there as well. It usually fully supports hardware in comparison to other systems and the lack of stability comes in different ways.

>Linux
I've tried this first in 2004, then moved on, tried it for a short while every other year, different distros and all. Played with arch for a while, had some fun when I had free time. Now I install it, I see it's much better than before, but I still find myself trying to find alternatives for things that don't work for me. And when I have to get too many alternatives it starts to feel like I don't need it. Like most of my time is spent "customizing" it.

>macOS
At first very reluctant. When I tried hackintosh back in late 2015, I noticed that it was working way better than I thought it would on my hardware. Not to say it's taking everything nicely (for instance, I'm not able to use my line in jack) but it's more reasonable than expected. It works fairly well, I don't play many games anymore, I don't have to find too many alternatives (in fact now I find myself with things that I can't find on Windows or Linux) and the only problem I see is that it's just not as snappy, maybe indeed because of my hardware. I can handle that.

>unbiased
Good luck :) Still, I don't believe in OS tribalism either and have used PCs and Macs since (sadly) getting rid of my Amiga in about 1993 so...

>Windows
Consistent. Best thing about it is simply its popularity - it's much easier to get things done, especially if they're a bit niche, when it's what everyone else uses. Also means more games. Getting out of this popularity thing is a bit chicken-and-egg - it seemed like Apple were getting somewhere, until around when Jobs died.

3.11 was good. 95 was exciting (because new) but also bleeding edge, buggy and hard work until OSR2. 98 was good. ME was buggy. 2000 was great but had poor game support as developers were holding out for XP. XP was good aside from the Fisher Price UI and best in classic mode. Vista a buggy bloated pig. 7 great. 8 and 8.1 okay with classic shell. 10 fantastic IMO if you're not too much of a baby to be able to turn off the 'botnet' stuff (people complain so much about default settings or things that take 30 seconds to fix with a removal tool, it's like people have maybe used some iOS type stuff too much and forgotten that you're allowed to change things on traditional OSes)

Downside after using Linux and Mac is it feels so backwards to have to install packaged drivers and to update things separately.

Forced update reboots are kind of annoying and harder to kill off (not impossible, but MS will fite u)

In order to be sane after using Linux I like to install chocolatey and install/update most software through that instead of having update nags popping up left right and centre, and Duplicity so I have a half decent backup system.

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>macOS
Used it as my main (but not only) OS from 2004 to 2016. Very solid, beautiful UI, and very well designed applications. Nothing beats how pretty it is, even mundane stuff like.. I don't know, bittorrent clients? Often seem to have very well polished UIs. It's the sort of thing where you sit down to it and actually enjoy using it and smile at all the niceties. Yet you still have the powerful BSD based OS underneath.

Downsides include:
Official hardware is expensive af, now more than ever, and always going further down the "sacrifice ports and repairs/upgrades for thinness" meme, and Hackintoshing can be hard work.
Unless you use them everywhere (at work too for example) it's really annoying switching between cmd- and ctrl- shortcuts.
You have to do a lot of initial tweaking to make it sane like having home and end keys work properly.
If you have an Android phone (I much prefer them to iPhones right now) and want browser sync, you're gonna want Chrome really, which sucks balls on Macbooks.

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>Linux
I love how you can set it up exactly how you want it. Most distros use the apt/yum/pacman systems where all software is updated at once which is great. Things just generally seem to be done sensibly, for example it's easy to have an encrypted second user account for porn without having to lock down your primary account to kingdom come to prevent anyone getting at it, where on Windows and Mac you have to really hack it as they want you to do FDE instead.

There's a great wealth of free software, some of it is a bit clunky and "well it's free, I'll make do", some is great and even not ported to Windows / MacOS with the only alternatives being expensive commercial stuff.

Biggest downside is worst popularity, meaning worst Steam library, and many of its proponents are hostile to closed source so Adobe et al stay away. Things can sometimes be hard work if you have poorly supported hardware or want to do something unusual. Developers are mostly volunteers so can't be held accountable. Personally, I prefer Lightroom to Darktable. And if I have to work with other people, I hate to be the special snowflake whose free office package doesn't quite render that document right or whatever.

Finally, if you use a GTK desktop then it's terrible for imageboards as they can't figure out how to get thumbnails in the file chooser and haven't for like 10+ years (go look up the bug reports, it's hilarious. I'm no expert on writing these things but they are and like toilets in India they just can't figure it out even though it's a basic concept)

Generally speaking I enjoy Linux but because I often have to boot into Windows to do things like gaming or photo editing and other little things here and there, I tend to just stick to Windows (with an encrypted Linux VM for porn)

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>Linux
no games
>Mac
no games
>Windows
games

>>58646496
troll

>>58645300
Windows (all versions) - unstable, need to be rebooted constantly, Uses an unnecessary amount of system resources. Has games.
OS X - Buggiest window manager, subjectively bad behavior for common desktop actions, lack of basic desktop features, terrible generic drivers. Has the best multi-moniitor virtual desktop support and has the best touchpads.
Linux - just works