Linux

[Brummie]

Another vote for mint with the mate desktop, before that I used Madriva. Tried Gentoo, Slackware and Arch but still find mint and Ubuntu variants’ the most convenient. I still dual boot with windows 10. Never had any issues using Linux but then again I build my own computers so I was able to check hardware compatibility of the parts but I think compatibility is becoming less of an issue now as Linux becomes more popular. The Linux live distros such as gparted, Caine, NST etc are very handy to have for fixing issues.
On the issue of updates, I have mobile wireless broadband don't use it much but once when I dual booted into Windows it downloaded updates and used up all my data. I think I was paying £10 for a one GB with talk talk.

 

[MattF]

Dont usually run a gui with linux. Just bash. Then type stuff. If i want a windows environment i use windows.

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I8f you really want to grt geeky you need to get the source code and compile.

I believe it's tcsh I use. Never really took to bash. I compile. I run BSD though. Never been overly fond of Linux.

 

[reb78]

Mint entirely revived a ten year old laptop of mine. Windows seemed to be gradually dropping support for some of the hardware etc to the point that the wireless card would no longer work with my router. Mint just worked. Its quick and easy to use. I really like it.

 

[rikrobson]

I believe it's tcsh I use. Never really took to bash. I compile. I run BSD though. Never been overly fond of Linux.

I got used to scripting in bash and the syntax in the other shells is slightly different.