You’ll spend more hours with your OS on your daily driver than your spouse. Think about it. Will you spend 8+ hours a day, 5+ days a week, for 30+ years with your spouse? If you will spend that much time with your daily driver’s OS, can you really afford to use a suboptimal OS? Can you waste your life away like that? Isn’t it worth investing some time in the best OS?
Today, there’s still only the big 3: Windows, Mac, and Linux. non-mac BSD is esoteric. Temple OS doesn’t support networking. And Plan 9 never made it out of the lab. The big 3 are all popular enough that we won’t go into them or their differences.
The golden rule for choosing any long term personal technology choice like an OS or a text editor. Once you’ve ruled out everything that doesn’t meet the technical bar, we should pick:
The one that you’ll want to spend the mos…