Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?

Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by Rusky on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:09PM (#7770572)

This is probably just me, but the biggest reason I use Linux is the package manager and repositories (Arch's package manager and wiki are amazing). Anything other than that, Windows or OS X, feels like it's missing something and I have to work around it.

People are saying they have to spend a lot of time configuring Linux but in my experience that's not the case (obviously once it's installed in the case of Arch, which for me is a worthwhile investment).

I do admire the polish of OS X's desktop though.

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by renaudg on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @09:05AM (#7772310)

OS X has everything an end-user needs already (iLife apps are best of breed on any platform and come for free !), that's the beauty. For the rest there's the seamless App Store.

Now for hackers, you already get a long way with the built-in BSD commands, but one word : http://brew.sh

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by Rusky on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:27AM (#7773064)

Brew leads to the same kind of experience as MinGW on Windows. It's just not as good as the package managers on Linux.

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