I have started a similar topic on steam and it's a pretty popular thread so I thought I would throw it here.
What is your OS of choice? WIndows Mac or Linux? Why?
I'll start: I use linux as a main OS setup ranging from slackware machines to arch to ubuntu on my main desktop for streaming and such. The same desktop also runs windows 10 for basically DayZ. I have other things installed for it but there is no reason to use them (abiword, notepad++, etc). All other games run fine in linux such as world of tanks, League of Legends, TF2, and many other games that I play on a regular basis.
Since I stream for a job obviously linux is a wierd choice, right? I like to think that my privacy is actually being preserved when I stream, video edit, watch youtube, whatever. I also prefer the linux based OBS to the windows version. Easier to manage and a lot less effort in seting up my captures.
I do other things as well. As I said video editing, some music stuff (djing, music writing), and some code with 3D design.
My box is an All AMD box because why not? Works for me and thats all I care about.
PS: I am using Mate as my interface. Gotta get those Gnome2 days back man!!!
If I wouldn't need to program on .NET, I would have switched to Linux completely a long time ago. Though I would like to get a Windows gaming rig then, but I still don't play games much, so it does not matter that much I guess. I simply enjoy the Linux experience way more and knowing what is actually going on with your system at all times is awesome, you can be so much more surgical with what you do. As for distros, I started liking CentOS as a server platform a lot, but I don't think it's great as a desktop workstation, but then again you can customize! When I was fully on Linux some time ago I liked Debian with GNOME as a desktop workstation. If I did not want to game at all I wouldn't even miss Windows as Linux has everything I need.
My main OS is GNU/Linux (RMS should be proud xD). I use it from pretty much everything from web browsing to coding and gaming. I have Windows 10 in dual boot just to play 2 games: KillingFloor 1 and 2. KillingFloor 1 has a linux port, but it's full of missing textures and glitches, killingfloor 2 is still in development (it's in early access); a linux port is planned when the game is actually finished and will be available since day one.
•Tails when I want to feel protected •Linux when I want to feel revolutionary •Windows when I want to get Spy on •OS X when I want to feel like a Hipster
OpenSUSE- it just flat out works, I get the newest packages on Tumbleweed, it's a standard for LFCS and LFCE training, Zypper is the best PM in my opinion, and I've only broke a single SUSE install :). That's a low. YaST is really great as well for system administration. I like to think of SUSE as a more up to date RPM version of Debian that comes prepackaged with great tools.
I run a Gentoo Hardened box. I need to compile the new 4.2 kernel at some point. This gets used for coding and circuit drawing. I have a desktop that runs a similar kernel for when I wish to offload the compilation to a higher powered machine. Both systems run gnome 3 as my preferred environment. Otherwise, for more stability I like to run fluxbox or simply skip a DE all together. Depends on the use case.
My desktop also has win7 on it for two major reasons. Games and audio. The audio is a bigger reason for running windows than anything else for me. The foobar clone doesn't do it for me, nor do any of the other native players. I'm quite happy with Musicbee in win7. Bastards need to develop it for linux or give me the source.
Win 8.1. I can't stand Win 7, I find it too limited and messy. Win 10 is too buggy for me and has a lot of the settings changed up for the worse (such as Windows Update) or moved/hidden. Tried over 10 flavours of linux, but couldn't get used to having to use the terminal for most of the things I do. Only flavour I still use avidly is Kali, but for specific reasons...
Windows 95, I just like how simple it is and it works great for the just need it to work things.
so now for the real OS,
I use Mint, I prefer the .deb variants of linux, i was using ubuntu with xfce but the sound mixer blows, i was on unity for a bit, and it slows to a crawl when using wine apps, mint has the nice sound mixer of unity and does not slow to a crawl when using wine so that is why I chose it.
My other os is windows 10, and it is only used for games that do not run on linux. and so far i have encountered a sound bug where if you switch outputs for sound is just doesn't work anymore and gets stuck you have reboot to fix this, and a random BSOD, never had a BSOD before upgraded.
Windblows 7 ULT (i like to game) Debian 6 on the workhorse (its bomb proof and just runs and runs) puppy linux on usb (it will run on a turd and is usefull for fixing broken or virus ridden computers)
My main rig runs windows 7 because I've had no problems with it and haven't run into anything I can't do with it yet that are severe enough that I'd want to switch, plus I've only been using computers since XP, and I'm familiar with the whole thing. It's like windows is a comfy sofa and I've put too much into my ass crease now.
My laptop that I use on odd occasion, I upgraded to windows 10 out of curiosity, then tried sticking linux on. I'm not going to go into any details about that because it's the first time I've dealt with something other than windows and I'd probably butcher the terminology and end up looking like an idiot because I doubt I did anything right, lol. Will probably revisit it around christmas when I'm next on holiday and will have the need and the time to sort it out.
Doesn't mean I'm not open to things other than windows, just never had a decent enough reason to put enough effort in.
My favorite is Arch linux. The main thing for me is that it's rolling release, and it comes with nothing, basically CLI and pacman. The bottom line is, you can really make that thing your own, and it's relatively fast for being up to date.
I run Linux Mint 17.2 with Cinnamon on my laptop. It's used for school and work: coding, web development, web browsing, and writing office documents (I use Libreoffice). I've used Ubuntu, but I just find Linux Mint to be a lot better. More things work out of the box, it's more stable, and the UI is much nicer IMO. On my desktop I'm running Windows 10 since I really only use it for gaming right now. I do plan on running Linux on that as well at some point, probably Fedora so that I can run Windows in a KVM virtual machine with GPU pass through so I can still game on it.
Windows 10 on my desktop and laptop. I wish I could put a really lightweight version of linux on it but it's an Asus transformer book and I don't believe the driver support is fantastic.
I've tried installing Manjaro, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu onto my desktop but somehow something just breaks.. usually the graphics drivers. Sometimes I would log in and it would be just a blank black screen or messed up graphics on all three of my monitors. Other times if I left a full screen application my main monitor, where I would usually have it open, would go black but the other two would remain functional. Only a restart fixed either of these issues.
Lg's custom android version is pretty nice. I have the LG G4. Just got it and god damn is it nice. I actually really like lg's custom android version. The swipe to the left thing is pretty cool because of the ability to put calender notifications, music control, tv remote control, and I think weather right there is actually quite nice. It's like google now except instead of searching it's a phone control hub.