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Which is better?

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MacOS is the best front end experience and Linux is great for server side. Windows should just stop existing. I will say though that windows 11 does look very nice, but it also does look a lot more like MacOS. Coincidence? 

If somebody says chromeOS or something. Don’t even talk to me. Smh. 

 
I'm a huge fan of MacOS. I've had Macs for 12 years now and can't imagine ever going back to Windows for my personal computer. So I voted for MacOS.

That said, Windows is better for work and gaming, so I've always either had a Bootcamp partition on my Mac, or a separate gaming computer running Windows.

 
Windows for corp work and gaming. Linux for my Cyber Sec/dev stuff ( though with Windows linux subsystem i can dev on windows kinda). Mac is really for those who want to do video editing and people who dont really care about not gaming. I will say this Macs suck to defend compared to windows/linux as most security vendors focus on windows/linux more then Mac not to say some tools are not great.

 
I couldn't go without windows for gaming but I hate paying money to Microsoft to own the OS. I have a few linux VMs just to mess around in but I don't really use them for much. Never owned a Mac so can't really speak on that but they seem kinda overpriced. 

 
I thought everyone knew the general rule, Windows for games, Linux for general work + servers + programming stuff, and MacOS for music/video editing. In terms of having compatible stuff, Windows will always come out on top. You can always dual boot Windows on whatever computer you have as long as it isn't a terribly old machine or something.

 
Ekaterina Komnena said:
I thought everyone knew the general rule, Windows for games, Linux for general work + servers + programming stuff, and MacOS for music/video editing. In terms of having compatible stuff, Windows will always come out on top. You can always dual boot Windows on whatever computer you have as long as it isn't a terribly old machine or something.
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Only still recently could you boot windows on the new macs, and not all it’s applications work on Mac as of yet. Still need more support from Microsoft for that. 
 

Also. The game situation for windows is a self feeding circle. If you can only make a game compatible for one platform then you’re going to choose windows since it’s the most popular. People then choose windows because it has the most games. And in that it feeds its popularity completing the circle. It doesn’t prove that windows is best for games as the self feeding circle makes it harder for other better platforms to rise up. It only proves that there are more games on windows and that that won’t change anytime soon. 

 
Yep, it's the network effect. Doesn't matter if it's not the best, the fact that it's usable and it was the first to the mass market means it'll forever be somewhat dominant unless they screw up in a major way. Also Macs would be vulnerable to all sorts of security flaws if it had the same success as Windows as well (plenty of Mac vulnerabilities out there, just not as profitable to exploit them).

In the meantime though, dual booting Windows on a Mac generally works (has worked decently since 2010 if you knew what to do). Of course, it's still overpriced hardware wise compared to some computer you could build on your own.

 
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