What is your favorite computer OS?

Mostly Steam and Minecraft

You can literally run both on Linux and it's just amazing.

My favorite is probably Haiku because it has in my opinion the best floating window manager in the world and just overall feels really good to use. Once it develops further I would genuinely consider using it as my main OS on my laptop. I'll probably always keep a Linux distribution on my desktop for games though.

(Also your explanation for using windows is a little weird. Minecraft Java works just as well on linux as on windows and you can use bedrock edition with mcpelauncher and it works pretty well. I've literally never used anything not linux based as my main OS and I haven't had anything I actually wanted to play not work since like 5 years ago)

Arch Linux

Gaming has not been a problem for me yet.

Proton works pretty good and games in Steam are starting to release builds for Linux as well because Steam Deck got popular (thanks Valve?) Minecraft Java also runs natively on Linux.

I’ve been into NixOS recently, not sure if I’m gonna stick with it long term but I’m trying to make it work. I love that it’s immutable while still allowing system packages, and declaratively configuring all of your common programs with home manager is super cool. Just have issues with scripts from the internet and trying to get nix-ld to cooperate

Linux (currently Garuda Linux). I can do everything I want on it, including playing all the games I want.

And with the Windows Recall debacle (and make no mistake, it’s not at all gone, it’ll just exist in some different form or name), I am ridding my house of Windows.

OpenBSD is clean and well thought out.

MS-DOS is simple.

favorite? I like BeOS it was so nice!!

Xen / qubes. Gives me the level of control I've always wanted and had to fight operating systems for, and never was really sure if I could trust them. Turns out happiness is not trusting anybody

Been using Pop!_OS for a few months now. It's pretty great (despite its silly name). Haven't had any issues gaming.

https://pop.system76.com/

I use MXLinux, picked it somewhat at random when I was frustrated with windows 10 privacy settings and haven't looked back since. I tried mint, mint cinnamon, Ubuntu, and Fedora before MX, and Fedora is the only other one I have stuck with, to use on a Surface Pro (I needed Wayland for the touchscreen).

MX has been really stable, light on resources, and has worked really well through two complete hardware upgrades. I play games on steam, some brand new some old, and I haven't found one that I can't play yet. That is due to steam/proton/proton GE more than the OS I expect but I'm happy nonetheless. I also run my home entertainment box on MX on an old PC (I know there are better choices for os for this, I was just comfortable with it).

I like it because I haven't felt any reason to try anything else, perhaps someday I will and I'll just find a new OS then, but until then it's my favorite I think.

My favourite colour is blue.

That's kinda this question.

MacOS9 and BeOS/Haiku

FreeBSD.

I no longer use it but the FreeBSD Handbook is one of the most important books in my life. It got me away from Windows, and pointed me towards open source.

Doing everything in CLI environment made me think about computers and the history of computers differently. It helped me learning Apple OS X and Linux.

i dunno, os/2 warp?

MacOS but it was better about 10.6 or so than now…

Windows.

My hobbies and my work require a lot of different software. On MacOS everything would be expensive af and not customizable at all.

On Linux only 50% of the stuff would work, only 50% of that would work well and stable, and only 50% can be installed in less than 3h. And I need my software to be up and running in 7 days not 5 months.

I put this in another post as well, but the toxic positive endorsements of Linux really tick me off. If you use it, cool. If you like it, cool. If you wanna tell others it's nice, cool.

But if you have to tell ppl how they are using the wrong OS, windows, on almost completely unrelated posts, you make ppl dislike the Linux community, you downplay that Linux can be a serious commitment and that mileage may vary, speaking from experience. You are doing an active disservice to everyone.

Everyone has their own os, and just how I can appreciate that ppl have good reason to use MacOS, Linux Users should be able to appreciate that ppl like me can not switch and even if they do, it is often not worth it in any way.

Also if I get down votes so be it, I think this just needs to be said rn. No hate for anyone using any OS, in fact I'm curious about the other comments:)

zorin os for ease of use, qubeos for cool factor, and sourcemage linux for purely geek reasons.