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Discussion on: I'm planning to ditch my MacBook and move away from laptop computing

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Ben Halpern

I'm happy to hear other suggestions πŸ˜„

For any secondary laptop-type machine I'd expand to Google's offerings etc. but I'm not even aware of anything outside Mac/Linux/Windows ecosystems in terms of something I'd reasonably work with. I've heard of things like Redox, but hadn't considered alternatives. Now that you mention it, I kind of want to.

Secretly I would love to build a DEV-OS, which would basically be a developer-centric OS that natively hooks into your DEV profile for interacting more richly with this community. But that's another discussion altogether.

Do you have any OS suggestions I might want to check out?

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Sethu Senthil

I would love this, mannn.. let's get started! DEV os!

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Elton Alves

I started to use fedora this week, and i`m enjoying it so far! I was using Debian based (ubuntu), but i felt that fedora is better to install new programs and the user interface is better than ubuntu

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tux0r

Are you aware that the user interface is independent of your distribution?

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Elton Alves • Edited

I mean default user interface. My mistake!

Edited: in this case just about information Gnome 3

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tux0r

You can set the default user interface during the installation process. :)

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Elton Alves

I didn't know about that! Thanks about information!

The default for my was gnome 3!

Great observation man. Thanks!

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Marc Mercer

I would actually disagree with the 'default interface' statement, at least in the case of both Fedora AND Ubuntu. With Fedora, you can get into depth and customize it, but if you wanted, say KDE, you would normally use the KDE dedicated spin. Same for Ubuntu, which also defaults to non KDE. For that, you would use Kubuntu. It's not always as 'simple' as 'just choose the ui you want' because many different changes have been made that you wind up with packages you dont need, may have conflicts, etc.

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tux0r

While I'm happy to try various systems whenever I can, I agree with you that Redox is not complete enough just yet.

Being a developer, I can recommend Solaris (OpenIndiana or Tribblix) and BSD (FreeBSD or OpenBSD) though. Especially OpenBSD is a very fine desktop OS in my experience.

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Lewis Cowles

try HaikuOS (slightly Joking) it's ancestor BeOS was hands-down the best OS of it's time. I was gutted when Be Inc failed. It was clean, fast, had lots of software and a really healthy community. I'm gutted my C++ is not good enough to have written anything amazing for it.

Downsides are FF and Chrome support, virtualisation, probably a heap of non-core development environments and tools.

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tux0r

Haiku is nice, actually. :)