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  • As for it feeling quicker due to it being a fresh install, don’t really expect it to slow down. Windows always slows down over time because its Registry is clogged, the code gets more bloated over time with updates, and the filesystem is kind of trash.

    Linux generally stays quite nimble and quick in the long-term. It’s why you can take a decade old computer and still accomplish quite a bit on it with Linux.





  • Look I love GPL to death but I’m not going to pretend that every OS vendor on the planet needs to give away everything for free.

    You can like two things at once, and in my case I love my walled garden, commercial OS for end-user stuff as well as Linux for networking gear and servers. I used desktop Linux for awhile but at the end of the day I like things like Airdrop, AirPlay and the seamlessness of it all.

    Honestly, I like BSD operating systems more so than Linux ones despite the licensing arrangements. Linux is open as hell (obviously) but it’s super disorganized. I haven’t found a package manager I like as much as pkg (especially installing binary packages and compiled from source packages side by side with shared libraries).

    Looking forward to being downvoted to hell for having a differing view of Linux than all the recent Windows converts.















  • I use Linux utilities everyday on macOS as well as on my servers and networking equipment—I love it to death.

    But when it comes to the end-user stuff, I’m deeply invested in Apple’s ecosystem. My personal laptop, work laptop, phone, Apple TV work pretty seamlessly together and I love that aspect of it.

    What saddens me most is the drive away from native app development regardless of OS. Can’t stand Windows but if I’m using it I want the applications running on it to match Windows’ design language the same as I do on macOS (Linux GUI looks awful on macOS) and Linux (depending on desktop environment).

    More related to Linux though, I do tend to lean more toward BSD UNIX than Linux, but due to the lack of containerization and popularity it’s hard to make it a daily OS.