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Ask HN: What Operating System are you running on your main machine?

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I'm just wondering, since judging by the amount of freeBSD posts, there are a lot of freeBSD users here.

MacOS on a Apple silicon 16” MacBook Pro.

I write quite a bit of C++ and Java. Using the Jetbrain tooling and some custom build scripts, this thing is a beast.

I also use Omnigraffle for diagrams/white boarding and Omnifocus for creating todo lists.

After never being totally happy with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS and flip-flopping between them and Windows 10, I eventually decided to try Fedora. It has been great, and I have no interest in trying anything else.

    $ uname -a
    Linux stank 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I built a Hackintosh desktop a few years ago that has been my main development machine. About a year ago I got an M1 MacBook Pro that I've been very impressed with. I jump between the two pretty regularly.

I'm giving openSUSE Tumbleweed a solid go for daily use right now.

Using it for all my machines but my desktop, which is Windows 10 for gaming and the hardware that just won't work anywhere else.

Currently Win11 for work vms. Win11 for host. I went full circle during 2021 on my host os tho. Started on win10 > Linux mint > garuda > Ubuntu > win 11.

Boring answer: macOS on my work and personal laptops (though personal doesn't see much use these days), Windows for desktop (mostly internet browsing + gaming).

Same. Win 11 specifically.

Arch Linux with the LTS kernel.

Windows 10 on the work-provided PC, but only because I didn't have a say in the matter. Would probably have picked Debian or Ubuntu otherwise.

One main Win 10 based system with docker and wsl based dev work and one popOS based.

ChromeOS on the main dev Pixelbook Go, Debian or CentOS on cloud VMs

Windows 10 on my desktop. EndeavourOS on my development laptop.

Ubuntu 20.04 at work and macOS at home.

Ubuntu 21.10.

FreeBSD 13.0

Ubuntu 18.04

Nix OS

Windows 11

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