QubesOS (with Debian and Whonix AppVMs) or TAILS
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Windows. Primarily because I play a lot of PC games and do PCVR and while Linux has come a long way it's still more of a PITA to use for a lot of things.
Windows, it's easy to set up all the games I want and I'd have to run an emulator to use a Linux distro and still play everything I want to.
The last version I paid for was Windows 7 however, I only took the Win10 upgrade when things slowly stopped working because of driver issues.
KDE Neon. It does everything I expect an OS to do and stays out of my way...
I'm using Ubuntu with KDE Plasma. A while ago, Windows reset a lot of my system (thank the powers that be that my files stayed intact), and I decided that I was fed up with Windows and that I'd find a way to continue everything I was doing on Linux. At this point, I'm roughly 95% of the way there as I do own an Oculus Rift which only supports Windows (unless someone can point me to an article or forum post that says otherwise); I'd like to either get a Valve Index or a Quest, but I don't currently have the money.
In any case, a friend of mine recommended a flavor of Arch that included KDE Plasma (I forget the name, might be Endeavour) but I was coming up with issues that a lot of programs I had wanted to use were only built for Debian/Ubuntu so I switched again. Lovely how with Linux you can switch distros so easily. So I flashed my computer with Kubuntu and I haven't looked back since.
Windows 11 unfortunately, for two reasons:
- I was a fool and bought forza horizon 5 on the Microsoft store instead of steam, so Iβm not able to run it on Linux at all. Iβm also not going to buy it twice since it ainβt cheap.
- VR support on linux isβ¦ patchy. Itβs ok if youβre using a Vice or Index, but Iβm using a 1st Oculus Quest, so while ALVR exists, itβs not perfect. I do intend on jumping to linux when FH6 domes out and Iβve relaxed the oculus, though.
Windows, works for everything I need and never had any reason to change to another OS.
Arch > anything else.
Windows 10 bc I play lots of games and it just runs. Not upgrading to Windows 11 bc I want to reinstall my PC when I do it but I don't want to do all that at the moment.
I used to use Linux, but Windows just has better support for most apps and drivers so currently Windows 10. I doubt I'll ever switch to Windows 11. It seems pretty iffy with the lack of customization and ads appearing in the folder menus.
I just use Ubuntu 22.04 on my personal home-built PC. It just works, and I'm not interested in too much tinkering. My wife's PC also runs Ubuntu 22.04, I have a ton of raspberry Pi's with standard raspbian on them. And my work laptop runs Windows 11 and it is decent enough.
I'm happy. I can run Steam with all the games I want pretty flawlessly, with some minor tinkering sometimes. But it is a solid experience.
Windows 11:
- Games and every Software I need just works
- Everything else runs in the Browser anyway
macOS, works for me. Want to get a simple Windows PC for simple games, because that is just way easier to do than with macOS ...
Windows 11 on the desktop with an Ubuntu VM, Ubuntu on a Lenovo laptop, and Linux Mint on an HP 13.
Arch Linux with KDE. Windows is trash.
My desktop runs Windows 11 since I game and use an Nvidia GPU. I also end up having to re-install my OS a bunch if I use Linux on a daily-driver.
Two of my laptops run Ubuntu for greater compatibility with server software I have installed on them (I use them solely for server shit), and one runs Mint. The Mint one is mainly just used to Parsec into my desktop from bed.
Windows 11, mostly for gaming. I also dual-boot Fedora, which now that Proton is getting so good I am considering making the full switch over. Only thing is I have an Nvidia GPU :(
Currently trying out NixOS, just switched from Gentoo. Interesting experience so far, will see if the switch will be permanent.
Immutable system, completely separated and well-defined development environments per project, and overall nix is pretty nice.
Windows 11 on my desktop for gaming. Manjaro Linux on my laptop for most other things.