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Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not. It might seem pedantic, but one must suggest distro's: CentOS(Use RHEL docs), Ubuntu(I recommend Ubuntu Studio for Desktop), Debian, Fedora, GNU/Linux/.*. I might even be as progressive to name freebsd, pc-bsd, RaspBSD.

But sorry, I'm just unwinding a bit on HN, after work.

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> Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not.

I'd consider "Windows" to be a family of related operating systems (but usually referring to the "Windows NT" OS). "Linux" as well, using the name of the kernel to refer to a family of different OSes built on top of it (while excluding others, in its common use).

I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?

Well to be honest I'm in Windows 10 on Ubuntu Studio. My work platform is OS X and a lot of tmuxing.

I actually don't have a primary OS anymore because with c9 I can have a sane env over https.

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