• spaghetti_carbanana@beehaw.org
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    OpenSUSE on Desktop, macOS for laptop. I’ve used macOS on portables for years now but only in the last 3ish months have I gone the linux Desktop.

    As to the “why” - macOS because it’s polished, tightly integrated with the hardware, the ecosystem works harmoniously, it’s secure and Unix-based (Darwin is the name of the base OS used for both macOS and iOS).

    For Desktop - I used Windows pretty much all my life but it’s gradually turned into a bloated advertising and tracking engine. I’m speaking as a home user and a 10+ year IT professional. Linux has come in leaps and bounds and OpenSUSE is an enterprise-grade OS that also happens to run games and other personal things nicely. If I wasn’t using it I’d probably be using Red Hat but I dumped it largely due to their shitty business practices.

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        1 year ago

        MS have always been a little shitty and I don’t want to sound “high horse”-y since everything is flawed in one way or another, but basically:

        • the creep of advertising into the OS (despite charging for a license for Windows)
        • the substantial telemetry/metric and analytic collection of the user activity
        • the installation of so much unwanted garbage (e.g. candy crush, tik tok, etc)
        • the use of its user base as “beta testers” by pushing half-baked features
        • the removal of features

        I understand that they’re running a business and that they can’t support old OS’ forever and can’t appease every user, but the above was more than enough for me to jump ship.

        Edit: sorry I realised after replying you meant red hat lol, @Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works said exactly what I was referring to. For those looking for an alternative, Rocky OS is the new CentOS and is built by its original creator.