#tldr linux is fine but makes me nervous bc im not as experienced w it

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☕️ computer operating systems

my personal order goes macOS > linux > windows!

there was a really good post i saw a while ago talking abt how the three approach interacting with your computer (like the deep bits not like. your file explorer) differently. i’ll try to somewhat replicate it but ill definitely do a worse job akdjsk

linux is like you’re in the same room you can see it all you can touch it all. which makes me slightly nervous bc my computer science background is Noooot the kind of cs where i feel all that comfortable rearranging a computer’s guts. both physically and digitally. but in school i worked a lot with linux specifically with super computers so using it is fine i would just get nervous abt accidentally hitting self destruct . somehow .

mac (which is a unix OS) is like you’re in different rooms but you can open the door and peek in and mess around a little (and even a lot) but it’s pretty hard to trash the room. which is why i like it! the command line interface is nice and upfront, everything is pretty intuitive to get into and mess with imo like you don’t have to download extra software just to unzip .tar files (cough. fuck you windows. cough). all of my cs professors had macs for their laptops and would remote in to linux super computer access lol. the unix philosophy is “operating systems should provide a set of simple tools, each of which performs a limited, well-defined function” whereas windows’ philosophy seems to be “fuck you we’re microsoft”

and windows is like. you can open a window (that was unintentional) and shout at it. maybe. they HIDE everything?? i feel like im jail breaking my work desktop literally daily just trying to force it to let me see what’s going on with code. why do you have to go searching for command line interfacing. ALSO jesus christ the fucking pop ups the add ons the BULLSHITTTT they throw in that mf. i remote in from my mac to my windows work computer when im wfh and ill accidentally hit command + c to copy (bc that’s control c on a mac) but the keyboard mapping means command = windows key so it tries to pull up cortana. but it just pulls up a window that says “cortana in windows as a standalone app is deprecated” THEN GET RID OF THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUT YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!! that one happens 2-3 times a day when i wfh and every time i get mad. the constant fucking pop up notifications and the stupid news thing that comes up whenever i accidentally roll my mouse over the bottom right. half of the features on windows feel like adware it’s insane???

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